The People's Court of Ha Tinh province has just opened the first instance trial of the case of Le Ba Hai (born in 1990, residing in Ngoc Lac district, Thanh Hoa) and 40 accomplices for the crimes of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" and "Money laundering".
On May 22, the Provincial People's Court opened the trial of Le Ba Hai (born in 1990, residing in Ngoc Lac district, Thanh Hoa) and 40 accomplices for the crimes of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" and "Money laundering".
In this case, Le Ba Hai (born in 1990, residing in Ngoc Lac district, Thanh Hoa) played the leading role and was prosecuted for the crimes of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" and "Money laundering".
The remaining 40 defendants are aged from 18 to 38, residing in Thanh Hoa, Nam Dinh, Hanoi , Son La, Thai Binh, and Hai Duong provinces; prosecuted for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property".
There are 10 defendants in custody, the remaining 31 defendants are on bail.
According to the indictment of the Provincial People's Procuracy, in order to have money to spend, around October 2018, Le Ba Hai had the idea of creating online sales pages on the social network Facebook to post recruitment ads, providing false information to defraud and appropriate money.
From August 2021 to December 2021, Le Ba Hai, together with Cao Thien Son (born in 1998, residing in Ngoc Lac district, Thanh Hoa province), enticed, attracted, guided and provided tools and means (computers, phones, unregistered phone SIM cards) to 39 participants and established 6 "offices" in different locations and used 19 unregistered bank accounts.
The subjects created fake Facebook and Zalo accounts to trick people into recruiting collaborators to sell construction design drawings on social networks.
Specifically, Le Ba Hai directed Cao Thien Son to buy fanpages, then change their names to pages related to construction architecture and run ads to increase interaction with users.
These fanpages have content recruiting collaborators to sell construction design drawings via the Internet for the company, with attractive offers such as: Work from home and receive a fixed salary of 2-3 million/week; receive a discount of up to 30% of the drawing value; only have to pay 20-50% of the drawing value, the company will pay the rest, the job is to share the fanpage's posts on the collaborator's personal Facebook, set to "public" mode.
Next, Hai and Son assigned, instructed and provided two other subjects to text and interact with customers and advised them to provide information including name, address, and phone number to register as collaborators.
After Facebook users agree to become collaborators, the fanpage staff compiles the list and sends it to Le Ba Hai so that Hai can divide the number of collaborators into groups, from which the group leader divides collaborator information to group members for communication.
The jury conducted a background check on the defendants.
Because of trusting the information posted by the fanpage, the collaborator transferred a portion of the agreed product value from 20% to 50% to the company to receive a discount. After that, the subject pretended to be a customer, using the excuse of canceling the order, blocking contact and appropriating the collaborator's money.
Using the above methods and tricks, from August 2021 to December 2021, Le Ba Hai and his accomplices defrauded 211 victims in many provinces and cities across the country with a total amount of more than 9.5 billion VND.
After appropriating the victim's money, he transferred it to 19 unregistered bank accounts managed by Le Ba Hai. To conceal his criminal acts and the origin of the money from the crime, from August 28, 2021 to December 29, 2021, Le Ba Hai committed money laundering by using a total amount of more than VND 9.3 billion to buy virtual currency, then selling it to many other people for Vietnamese Dong and transferring it to Cao Thien Son's Techcombank account and sharing the profits.
After the Trial Panel checked the defendants' backgrounds, the court attendees heard the prosecutor's representative announce the indictment.
The trial is expected to last 9 days (from May 22 to May 31).
Duong Vinh
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