In recent days, the information that Bac Ninh Provincial Police presided over and coordinated with functional units to successfully destroy a fraud ring operating in Cambodia, defrauding more than 13,000 victims with an amount of nearly 1,000 billion VND has received great public attention.
On the morning of January 27, Bac Ninh province gave a reward to the force that destroyed the above-mentioned cross-border fraud group. It is known that the project is called CPC9.
According to the Investigation Committee, the leader is a foreigner but by many tricks, he continuously recruited Vietnamese people to carry out the scenario to deceive Vietnamese people.
The main suspects identified include: Nguyen Van Manh (born in 1989, in Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province); Do Van Nghia (born in 2000, in Luc Nam district, Bac Giang province); Dinh Nhu Quynh (born in 2002, in Thanh Thuy district, Phu Tho province); Nguyen Duc Toan (born in 1993, in An Duong district, Hai Phong city) and Pham Thi Huyen Trang (born in 1999, in Tien Lang district, Hai Phong city).
Among them, Pham Thi Huyen Trang is a senior manager, responsible for creating a series of fraudulent scenarios and receiving a salary of up to 200 million VND/month. Meanwhile, Do Van Nghia is a powerful assistant of the foreign "boss".
In particular, the company is also willing to give big rewards to employees who have completed their tasks excellently during the year.
"My salary as a manager is 1,300 USD. When it comes to the Tet bonus, Dung gets 12,000 USD. After deducting all expenses, Nghia gets 35,000 USD (about 900 million VND)," a subject in the recently busted fraud ring revealed.
As Lao Dong reported, on January 22, Bac Ninh Provincial Police presided over and coordinated with the Departments of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention, Technical Services, Investigation Security, Ministry of Public Security; Northern Airports Authority, Southern Airports Authority, banking systems, network operators, border gates and Police of the provinces and cities: Tay Ninh, Quang Ninh, Hai Phong, Bac Giang, Hai Duong, Thai Binh, Phu Tho, Thanh Hoa, Quang Binh, Ho Chi Minh City... to successfully carry out a project, eliminating a cross-border fraud ring using high technology, with sophisticated tricks, causing particularly serious consequences.
Initially, the police arrested nearly 60 subjects and clarified that from May 2024 to present, the subjects have appropriated nearly 1,000 billion VND from more than 13,000 victims nationwide.
This group of subjects operated in the Tam Thai Tu area, Ba Vet city, Svay Rieng province, Cambodia, impersonating ward-level police, district-level police, tax, electricity, and education officials to call victims and ask them to update their citizen identification information, submit online admission applications, have health check-ups, declare taxes, etc., then take over the phone and appropriate money in the victims' bank accounts.
Captain Nguyen Huy Hoa - Deputy Head of the Investigation Security Department, Bac Ninh Provincial Police - said that from the early days of participating in the fraud organization, the above subjects were thoroughly and deeply trained in legal matters to be ready to respond when summoned by the investigation agency.
"Since being summoned, arrested and brought to the investigation agency, the subjects have always been calm, stubborn, and resolute in not confessing to their crimes.
But with the determination to fight uncompromisingly against crime and the close attention of the leaders of the Task Force, the members tried their best, fought with the subjects, and forced them to bow their heads and admit their guilt," said Captain Nguyen Huy Hoa.
Colonel Bui Chien Thang - Deputy Director of Bac Ninh Provincial Police, Head of CPC9 Project Team - said that in the plan, the Project Team has carefully prepared content and documents to serve investigators and officers participating in solving the case to have time to learn and research thoroughly about the subjects, methods and tricks of crime, ensuring the absolute effectiveness of the project.
During the process of arresting subjects at different locations and at different times of the day, absolute safety was still ensured for the arresting force, the arrested subjects and surrounding people.
