The Police Investigation Agency of Phu My Town Police (Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province) has just prosecuted a criminal case, prosecuted the defendant, and executed an arrest warrant to temporarily detain Nguyen Tien Luc (born in 1973; hometown of Quang Ninh), to investigate the act of "Illegal seizure of property".
Previously, on October 21, 2023, Mr. NVA, using the bank's smart banking application, transferred money 3 times to Nguyen Tien Luc's personal account, with a total amount of 484 million VND.
Discovering the wrong transfer, Mr. A tried to contact Luc to request a refund of the mistakenly transferred money, but was unable to do so. Mr. Luc then did not contact the bank or local authorities to return it, but used all that money to repay debt and personal expenses.
In the past 10 years, when smart banking services became popular, cases of mistaken money transfers and "wrongly receiving money" but not returning it to the owner were too many to count.
However, there are not many cases of people who "wrongly received money" but did not pay, like Mr. Nguyen Tien Luc, being criminally prosecuted. Similar arrests and criminal prosecutions were recently recorded in Da Nang in 2018 with the amount of money mistakenly received 500 million VND; in 2019 in Hanoi with the "mistakenly received" amount of VND 700 million; 2020 in Ho Chi Minh City with an amount of "mistakenly received" money of more than 1 billion VND...
This leads to a paradox: whenever there is a story of a person who "wrongly received money" suddenly returning it to the wrong sender, whether more or less, the media will immediately "read" praising it, locally or locally. Authorities organize rewards and commendations . While this should have been a normal thing like "picking up lost things and returning them to those who lost them" like a first-class moral lesson from kindergarten.
Mr. Nguyen Tien Luc's actions not only stop at violating the law but are also once again a wake-up call about the ethics and social responsibility of each citizen.
"Receiving money by mistake" and then withdrawing it to spend, some people even run away from their place of residence instead of returning it, indirectly causing loss of people's trust in the financial system and mutual trust between people and people. People.
One penny is also appropriation of property. But all over the internet are stories of "misrecognition" ranging from tens of millions to hundreds of millions, even billions. Obviously knowing the person, knowing their face (through the bank) but not being able to ask for money is too unreasonable and unacceptable.
Therefore, the fact that Phu My Town Police (Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province) prosecuted a criminal case, prosecuted the accused, and executed an arrest warrant to temporarily detain Nguyen Tien Luc is a very necessary strictness. necessary, demonstrating the law's zero tolerance for such irresponsible and ethical violations.
Money can be transferred wrongly or "received by mistake", but ethics and social responsibility should not be mistaken because there is a risk of facing a prison sentence!
