On August 16, a representative of the Investigation Police Agency of District 7 Police, Ho Chi Minh City, said that the unit had just issued an emergency detention order for Ngo Thien Thach (30 years old, temporarily residing in Binh Tan District) and Tong Minh Hai (27 years old, temporarily residing in Go Vap District). Thach and Hai both reside in Hanoi .
Ngo Thien Thach and Tong Minh Hai (Photo: District 7 Police)
On the afternoon of July 27, Ms. NTV (Cao Thi Chinh Street, Phu Thuan Ward, District 7) discovered that her house's rolling door had been splashed with red paint, so she went to the police station to report it. This woman said that she had borrowed money from many people of unknown origin, each of them tens of millions of dong, and had not yet paid it back. Ms. V. suspected that the creditors had splashed paint on her house.
Ms. NTV's house in District 7 was splashed with paint. (Photo: District 7 Police)
The Investigation Police Agency of District 7 Police urgently investigated and brought to headquarters 5 people with suspicious signs, including Ngo Thien Thach and Tong Minh Hai.
Thach confessed that in March 2022, he rented a house on Street 8, Binh Hung Hoa B Ward, Binh Tan District to organize lending activities with Hai and 3 other people. Depending on the work, Thach paid each person a monthly salary of 5 to 7 million VND.
Thach is the one who lends money and manages the loans; the others are responsible for posting advertisements on social networks. When finding a customer in need of a loan, Thach assigns his accomplices to go to the customer's address to evaluate the loan application, including a photocopy of the citizen identification card and the actual residential address; if the application is guaranteed, the loan will be disbursed.
Loan interest rate from 10 - 20%/month (120 - 240%/year); depending on the borrower's conditions, Thach will charge high or low interest.
When receiving money, customers must write a handwritten IOU or fill out a pre-prepared IOU form. Customers pay interest through a bank account, if paying in cash, Thach's team will come to collect.
If the customer fails to pay on time, this group will come to the customer's house to collect the debt. In case the customer runs away or delays paying, they will curse at the customer's relatives, threaten, lock the house, throw paint on the house to put pressure, and demand that the debtor's relatives pay on their behalf.
During its operation, Thach's group lent about 100 people from 5 to 100 million VND each.
District 7 police have verified and contacted many borrowers and are continuing to investigate.
DAI VIET
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