Posing as a lawyer, a man who just finished grade 4 in the southern Vietnamese province of Soc Trang has appropriated US$150,000 from 21 people who wanted to be sent abroad as guest workers.
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Police from the Ministry of Public Security said on Tuesday that they had arrested Huynh Thanh Vu, 38, at his temporary residence in District 8, Ho Chi Minh City, on the same day.
According to the case file, in 2013, Ms. Bui Thi Hanh, 41, from the northern province of Thai Binh, wanted her relatives to be sent to South Korea as guest workers.
Through introductions from Vu’s relatives, Hanh contacted him, who claimed himself as lawyer and was able to help others to be sent abroad for easy work at a cost of UD$14,000.
Vu told Hanh, as well as other victims, to pay him $4,000 in advance, and said he would receive the remaining amount when all the procedures for labor export were completed.
He also promised to carry out steps for a visa extension for one of Hanh’s relatives who was working in South Korea.
Over nearly two years from 2013, Vu managed to swindle 18 people in the northern province of Ha Tinh and two others in the southern province of Tay Ninh and appropriated from his victims a total of US$150,000.
In November 2014, as Vu failed to do anything he had promised to Hanh, the woman filed a complaint against him to police.
After days of investigation, police arrested Vu at his home on Wednesday.
Vu just finished grade 4, but he had conducted complicated tricks to make others believe him and pay him money, said Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Duy Thanh, of the Ministry of Public Security’s Criminal Police Department.
Police are investigating the case and asked those who had fallen victim to Vu to report their case to police.
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