Taking advantage of the loopholes of business shop owners to exchange money and steal properties, 3 subjects with Iranian nationality include: Sabri Bejandi Mehdi, born in 1978; Aslrosta Maddi, born in 1980, and Salehi Rad Hossein, born in 1982, have just been arrested by Thanh Hoa City Police.
3 foreign thieves arrested.
According to documents from Thanh Hoa City Public Security Bureau, around 15:30 p.m. on April 24, 4, at the headquarters of the Cultural Post Office in Quang Thang Ward, Thanh Hoa City, two foreign men came to buy goods. When paying, these subjects gave the shop owner a 2023 USD bill and asked for the change to be returned. Taking advantage of the shopkeeper's loopholes and vigilance, the subjects stole 2 million dong and quickly escaped.
Immediately after the incident happened, the Thanh Hoa City Police coordinated with the Criminal Police Department and the Provincial Police to quickly verify, investigate, clarify and arrest the three aforementioned subjects while they were on the road. escaped into Ho Chi Minh City.
At the police station, 3 subjects confessed to entering Vietnam by tourist route, then using fake passports to go to places of theft activities. These subjects often rent accommodation in hotels, budget motels, do not declare temporary residence with accommodation businesses and often change their accommodation.
To commit their crimes, the subjects rented self-driving cars or motorbikes to move and commit crimes in all provinces and cities across the country. Objects often target individual business households, or limited companies with goods trading services whose locations are located in a secluded place to conduct illegal activities.
Their method of operation is to pretend to buy goods, ask for many items to distract the attention of the business owner, then ask which item is the cheapest to buy and use a high denomination bill or use the foreign currencies such as USD, EURO for payment. Taking advantage of when the shop owner returned the money, the object asked to choose the currency he liked to exchange money and steal.
This is a new and very sophisticated criminal trick, so all people, especially business households, need to be vigilant. For the owner of the accommodation service business, it is necessary to strictly abide by the provisions of the law on residence. When there are foreign guests staying, they must immediately report to the competent authorities as prescribed.
Thai Thanh
