Previously, the Criminal Police Department of Quang Nam Province Police received reports of crimes from many victims in the province, reporting that they were defrauded by a group of unknown individuals, who appropriated more than 1.3 billion VND in the form of securities investment.
After collecting sufficient documents and evidence, on September 19, Quang Nam Provincial Police coordinated with Quang Nam Provincial People's Procuracy; Ho Chi Minh City Police Department of Criminal Police, District 7 Police, Thu Duc City Police to simultaneously arrest and urgently search the residences of related subjects, including: Huynh Ngoc Tuan (born in 1985, permanent resident of Phu Ninh district, Quang Nam; currently staying at Thien Tan hotel, Hiep Binh Chanh ward, Thu Duc, Ho Chi Minh City); Tran Thi Thu Trang (born in 1995, permanent resident of Krong Pac district, Dak Lak; currently staying at Thien Tan hotel); a subject of Taiwanese nationality (China), residing at Saigon Riverside apartment building, Phu Nhuan, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City.
On September 22, the authorities continued to send two working groups to coordinate with Department 3, Department of Criminal Police - Ministry of Public Security; Hanoi City Police; Di An City Police, Binh Duong Province to arrest and urgently search: Nguyen Dinh Toan (born in 1992, permanent resident of Doc Tin Commune, My Duc District, Hanoi City), confiscating 4 cars that Toan confessed to using the money he had defrauded and appropriated from the victim to buy; Ton Huy Tang (born in 1983, permanent resident of Tam Son Commune, Nui Thanh District, Quang Nam; currently residing in An Binh Ward, Di An City, Binh Duong Province).
Total seized exhibits and documents include: 4 cars, 74 mobile phones, 6 CPUs, 4 monitors, 4 laptops, 1 tablet, 7 CCCD and ID cards (including 3 cards that Tran Thi Thu Trang said she bought online), 3 TVO Vietnam Television Live Work Cards (fake cards); 2 passports, 37 bank cards, more than 27 million VND, 500 USD; some jewelry including 6 necklaces, 5 gold rings and 22 bracelets with precious stones; more than 1,000 pages of virtual currency investment instructions and many related documents.
Initial investigation results determined that around the beginning of 2022, Huynh Ngoc Tuan hired a subject (unknown background - met through Telegram application) to create a website named Worldex.live (purpose of being a trading floor) and then together with Tran Thi Thu Trang, Nguyen Dinh Toan, Ton Huy Tang and a number of other subjects forged documents, pretended to be investment experts, organized seminars calling on many people across the country to participate in investing in virtual currency (USDT) on the Worldex.live floor.
On November 13, 2023, Tuan closed the Worldex.live floor (collapsed the floor), appropriating about 20 billion VND from the victims. After that, Tuan continued to open a new floor named GTG.GLOBAL to defraud using the old method.
It is worth mentioning that Huynh Ngoc Tuan used most of the fraudulently appropriated money to gamble online at a Taiwanese (Chinese) site; the total amount of transactions and gambling bets by Tuan alone was more than 207 billion VND.
