On September 21, the Office of the Investigation Police Agency of Quang Tri Province Police confirmed that the unit had just coordinated with Ha Giang Province Police to arrest wanted suspect Le Van Huy (born in 1989, residing in Ba Thung village, Cam Tuyen commune, Cam Lo district, Quang Tri province).
Previously, while living and working in Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong and some southern provinces, Le Van Huy had quite complicated social relationships. In early June 2022, due to business losses and many debts that he could not pay, Huy returned to his hometown in Cam Tuyen commune and was constantly being asked to pay by creditors.
Around the beginning of July 2022, Ms. Vo Thi M (born in 1998, residing in Tan Hiep village, Cam Tuyen commune), Huy's aunt's daughter, working in Ho Chi Minh City, asked Huy to introduce her to buy land in Cam Lo town.
Seeing this as an opportunity to earn money to pay off debts and serve his passion for online gambling, Huy lied to Ms. M that he needed to sell a plot of land in Thuong Vien neighborhood (Cam Lo town, Cam Lo district) for 600,000,000 VND. Believing Huy, Ms. M transferred the deposit and land purchase money many times and asked Huy to help her with the related procedures.
On September 20, 2022, Ms. M was asked by Huy to come to her house to give her the remaining amount of money to buy the land, about 200,000,000 VND; then he and Huy went to the office of the Land Registration Office of Cam Lo district branch. Here, Huy told Ms. M to wait outside the gate, then went into the office alone, then went out and gave Ms. M a "Certificate of land use rights, house ownership rights and other assets attached to land" No.: B1340615 in the name of Vo Thi M, on the paper specifically stated the property in Ms. M's name: Plot No. 539, map sheet No. 17, address: Alley 42, Thuong Vien quarter, Cam Lo town, Cam Lo district, Quang Tri province; area 180m².
On June 30, 2023, she found out that there was no land plot as stated in the "Certificate of land use rights, house ownership rights and other assets attached to land" that Huy gave her. Suspecting that Huy had made a fake "red book" to appropriate more than 600,000,000 VND, Ms. M filed a complaint against Le Van Huy for "fraudulent appropriation of property".
Receiving Ms. M's complaint, the police investigated and determined that the red book was fake.
Continuing to verify and collect evidence, the authorities determined that there were signs of a crime, so they initiated a criminal case of "Fraudulent appropriation of property", "Forgery of seals and documents of agencies and organizations; crime of using fake seals or documents of agencies and organizations" for investigation.
However, when summoned to work, Le Van Huy did not cooperate, so the Provincial Police Investigation Agency decided to search for and escort Huy back to work.
During the police investigation, Le Van Huy did not admit to defrauding Ms. M and claimed that he was also taken advantage of by others and did not know that the "red book" given to Ms. M was fake.
The Investigation Police Agency of the Provincial Police Department has issued a Decision to prosecute Le Van Huy for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" stipulated in Clause 4, Article 174 of the Penal Code and the crime of "Forgery of seals and documents of agencies and organizations; crime of using fake seals or documents of agencies and organizations" stipulated in Clause 3, Article 341 of the Penal Code. At the same time, Le Van Huy was summoned to the Police Agency for questioning, but the subject tried to deal with the situation and fled the locality.
At noon on September 19, 2024, Quang Tri Provincial Police coordinated with Ha Giang Provincial Police to successfully discover and arrest Le Van Huy while he was hiding at an accommodation facility near the Ha Giang Provincial bus station.
