Ex-Mrs. Global Vietnam runner-up indicted for $3.1mn fraud
Businesswoman Truong Thi Tuyet Nga, who won the title “Successful Lady” at the Mrs. Vietnam Pageant 2009 and was general director of Ho Chi Minh City-based Vu Anh International Hospital has been indicted on swindling charges.
The People’s Supreme Procuracy has issued an indictment in which Nga, who was also ex-director of Vu Lan Investment and Construction Co., Ltd., is charged with “appropriating property through swindling” pursuant to Article 139 of the Penal Code.
The 53-year-old woman, who finished as second runner-up at the Mrs. Global Vietnam contest held in the U.S. in 2012, was arrested in April 2013 at her home in HCMC’s Binh Thanh District after she was found committing frauds to appropriate over US$3.1 million.
According to the indictment, in early 2008, Nga applied to the HCMC Department of Natural Resources and Environment for a construction permit for a project to build a high-class housing and trade complex on a 35,000m² piece of land in Binh Khanh Ward, District 2.
Her application was turned down as the plot of land had been reserved for the building of Thu Thiem Railway Station.
However, Nga still signed a contract to assign the land use rights of over 30,000m² of the above area to D.M.L., a woman who is the director of a company in District 3, for $1,800 per square meter.
As such, the total value of the contract was $54 million.
Based on this contract, L. paid Nga $3.1 million as a deposit for the deal, in which the two sides agreed that within 18 months after the contract was signed, Nga would have to obtain a license for the project, hand the license to L., and carry out procedures to assign the land to her.
But soon after, Nga assigned part of the 30,000m² land to a man, T.V.M., who paid Nga a deposit of VND1.45 billion ($68,000).
It did not stop there. Nga later made an agreement to authorize all the land use rights over the land to her son Vu Hai Anh, who then represented Vu Lan Investment Construction Company, so that Anh used the contract as a mortgage for a loan of VND131 billion ($6.15 million) from Dai Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank (TrustBank).
Later, Nga completed formalities to donate the land use rights to her son.
In October 2012, after waiting in vain for a long time, L. discovered Nga’s tricks and reported her wrongdoings to police, who launched an investigation and arrested Nga on April 27 last year.
So far, Nga has failed to return the appropriated money to her two victims, the People’s Supreme Procuracy said.
The Procuracy added that investigators have discovered acts of giving and taking bribes and bribery brokerage related to Nga’s swindles.
An investigation into the bribery is underway, the agency said.
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