The Investigation Police Agency of Da Nang City Police has issued decisions to prosecute and execute an arrest warrant for Le Thi Thu (48 years old, from Ha Tinh province, residing in Nai Hien Dong ward, Son Tra district, Da Nang city) for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property".
By taking advantage of relationships with fellow countrymen and relatives, Le Thi Thu gave false information that she needed money to do gold business, so she asked to borrow money, then appropriated billions of dong from many victims...
Initial investigation results determined that Le Thi Thu and Ms. Le Thi T.H (47 years old, residing in Tho Quang ward, Son Tra district) had a friendship relationship with fellow countrymen and had known each other before. In December 2020, taking advantage of this relationship, Thu gave false information that she needed money to do gold trading to ask to borrow money from Ms. H.
In order to borrow a large amount of money many times, Thu invited Mrs. H to Ho Chi Minh City to visit a gold trading establishment in order to gain her trust. In fact, Thu knew that at this time, due to the complicated developments of the COVID-19 epidemic, Mrs. H would definitely not be able to go. Therefore, to make Mrs. H more confident, Thu took a photo of the call history showing that she was exchanging gold with someone else and sent it to Mrs. H to reassure her.
Trusting that Thu was a friend and fellow countryman, from June to November 2021, Ms. H lent Thu money many times via bank transfer, with loan terms ranging from 5 to 30 days. Each time she borrowed, Thu wrote a "Personal Loan Contract", and any loan that had been repaid would have its contract canceled.
According to the agreement, Thu paid interest regularly to Ms. H, but on November 11, 2021, she stopped paying, and Ms. H asked Thu to return the entire amount she had borrowed. In fact, because of the money she borrowed from Ms. H, Thu did not use it for gold trading purposes but used this money to pay interest to others or use the later loan to pay the previous loan. When she was no longer able to pay, Thu used the excuse that due to the pandemic, business losses led to bankruptcy, causing Ms. H to panic and write a complaint to the police.
At the investigation agency, Le Thi Thu and Ms. H compared the account statements and made a record confirming that from June 30, 2021 to November 11, 2021, Ms. H transferred money to Thu 90 times with a total amount of more than 20.4 billion VND; while Thu transferred back to Ms. H 87 times with a total amount of more than 13.8 billion VND; at the same time, it was confirmed that the amount of money Thu appropriated from Ms. H was more than 6.6 billion VND. According to Thu's explanation, this amount of money was used to pay interest on debts of a number of other individuals or used partly to pay interest to Ms. H herself.
In addition to the case of Ms. Le Thi T.H, during the investigation and verification of the case, the Investigation Police Agency of Da Nang City Police also received 5 other complaints related to the fraudulent appropriation of property by Le Thi Thu. Most of the complaints from the victims said that because they trusted their acquaintances, relatives, fellow countrymen, and even some were colleagues of Le Thi Thu's husband, they lent or borrowed from over 300 million to nearly 2 billion VND. All of these complaints were received by the Investigation Agency, which is currently continuing to consolidate documents and evidence for handling according to the provisions of law.
Through this incident, Da Nang City Police informs anyone who is a victim of Le Thi Thu to contact the Office of the Investigation Police Agency of Da Nang City Police, No. 47 Ly Tu Trong to report.
