On May 29, the People's Court of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province sentenced 5 defendants for establishing a company and opening accounts to receive money from a group of foreigners who defrauded other companies and transferred it to Vietnam to receive a percentage.
The defendants listened to the jury's verdict.
Accordingly, the People's Court sentenced the defendants Uzoh Emmanuel (35 years old, Nigerian nationality) to 14 years in prison; Nguyen Thi Hanh (42 years old, residing in Dong Nai) to 11 years in prison; Nguyen Thi Vinh (42 years old, residing in Ninh Binh) to 11 years in prison; Pham Thanh Dung (38 years old, residing in Tien Giang ) to 10 years and 6 months in prison and Vu Thanh Trung (38 years old, residing in Tien Giang ) to 10 years in prison for money laundering.
According to the indictment, in May 2017, Hanh met and lived as husband and wife with Uzoh in Ho Chi Minh City. Around August 2021, Uzoh was contacted by a friend named Arinze (Nigerian nationality) to set up a company in Vietnam, then registered to open a bank account and transferred information to Arinze.
Arinze would then hack into the email accounts of overseas companies to trick them into transferring money to the bank account of a company set up by Uzoh in Vietnam.
Both agreed that after Uzoh withdrew the money, 80% would be transferred to Arinze and the remaining 20% to Uzoh. Uzoh agreed and discussed with Hanh to find someone to open the company. Uzoh and Hanh agreed to pay 10% of the money received to the person who opened the company.
Hanh told Vinh the whole story that Uzoh discussed with Hanh. Hanh agreed with Vinh that of the 10% amount, Hanh would keep 4% and pay Vinh the remaining 6%.
Vinh discussed with Dung (Vinh's boyfriend) and agreed to pay 2% to the person who founded the company. Then, Dung invited Trung to join.
Uzoh's group established 17 companies and withdrew money twice. The first time, on August 27, 2021, Uzoh's group withdrew more than 233,000 euros from abroad and transferred them to the company where Dung was the director. After receiving 20% of the above amount, Uzoh's group divided it according to the previously agreed ratio, but Trung did not participate so he did not receive the money.
The second time, at the end of September 2021, another Nigerian, Ofia, contacted Uzoh to carry out the same actions, tricks, and sharing ratio as Arinze, and Uzoh agreed. On October 18, 2021, Ofia informed Uzoh that the money had entered the account of the company established by Uzoh's group, with Trung as director.
On October 20, 2021, the Uzoh group went to the bank to withdraw more than 100,000 USD from abroad and transferred it to the company account of which Trung is the director. However, because the Ba Ria - Vung Tau Provincial Police requested the bank to freeze the account, the Uzoh group could not withdraw it.
Knowing that the case of establishing a company to receive fraudulent money was being investigated by the police, Uzoh's group fled and was arrested one after another.
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