Breaking down the professional fraud line - hiding in the shadow of a cosmetic business

On the morning of July 13, the Investigation Police Agency (Thai Binh Provincial Police) said that it had just issued a decision to prosecute a criminal case and prosecute 11 defendants for the crime of "fraud to appropriate property".

Through the inspection, the Department of Cybersecurity and High-Tech Crime Prevention and Control of Thai Binh Provincial Police discovered a group of subjects with suspicious expressions of criminal activity, fraud and appropriation of assets in the air. large-scale, organized cyberspace.

Based on the collected documents and evidence, on 7/7, the Investigation Police Agency of the Provincial Public Security Department issued a decision to prosecute a criminal case to investigate the crime of "fraudulent appropriation". property" of the above target group.

On July 11, 2023, the Investigation Police Agency of the Provincial Public Security issued a decision to prosecute 11 defendants for the crime of "fraudulent appropriation of property" - Ordered the arrest of 09 defendants for temporary detention, banned from leaving the place. residence for 01 accused and issued arrest warrants for Le Thi Thuy. The above Decisions and Orders have been approved by the People's Procuracy of Thai Binh province.

Currently, Thai Binh Provincial Police are continuing to direct units to urgently investigate and expand the case, strictly handle the subjects according to the provisions of the law and thoroughly recover the assets obtained from the crime.

The initial investigation process determined: Since 2018, Ta Tung Lam (1994) registered to establish WallStreet Co., Ltd., headquartered in Dong Da district (Hanoi), the main business is trading functional food products. , medical supplies.

By the end of 2021, Ta Tung Lam and Le Thi Thuy (1994) established the group "VIDA Group" specializing in trading functional foods and beauty care products. These two objects set up an online sales Facebook page named "VIDA Group E-Commerce Community".

At the same time, the group proceeded to establish subordinate branches. To date, there are 120 branches, each branch has 7-10 employees; there is a director and deputy director of the branch, divided into 2 departments of Marketing and Sales for fraudulent activities.

These branches operate at 3 locations only in Khuong Mai ward, Khuong Trung ward, Thanh Xuan district and Trung Hoa ward, Cau Giay district, Hanoi city.

During the operation, the subjects created video clips and images to advertise the drug "Sac Ngoc Dan" capable of definitively treating skin conditions such as melasma, freckles for sales and postal transactions. electricity by shipping COD (cash receipt for postal workers).

The target group also informed customers that they will enjoy a 10-year skin care warranty package. This warranty package, every month, customers will be sent 01 free set of products to treat melasma and freckles valued at more than 1 million VND. The group commits that customers only need to use it for 2 to 3 years.

The remaining free cosmetics of the year will help the victims sell to the market for an amount of about 100,000,000 to 290,000,000 VND - this amount will be enjoyed by the customer.

In order to receive the drug sales amount, the subjects gave many reasons such as: a dossier must be made, a "black card" to rationalize the drug sales amount, the dossier lacks the red stamp of the post office, the lack of a product test mark. real, fake goods of the Ministry of Health, money to pay personal income tax... Then, another object pretended to be an officer of the department on contact with customer.

For each of the reasons given, the subjects asked the customer to transfer more money to receive the money for the sale of the warranty package and promised that the amount paid by the customer to take care of the above costs would be refunded.

Based on the collected verification documents, on July 5, 2023, the Director of the Provincial Public Security directed the Department of Cybersecurity and High-Tech Crime Prevention and Control, the Office of the Police Agency to investigation, Thai Binh Provincial Police established 12 working groups to coordinate with Hanoi City Police to summon 17 subjects; urgent search of accommodation of 14 subjects; seizing, managing and sealing objects, assets and documents including: 4 cars, 31 phones, 12 laptops, 8 computer cases, 8 watches, 20 gold trees and two gold rings, 4 savings books with a total amount of nearly 2.6 billion VND and cash of nearly 7.5 billion VND...

The subjects prosecuted with the same residence in Hanoi city include: Le Thi Thuy, Ta Tung Lam, Nong Duc Manh, Nguyen Hong Quang, Nguyen Thi Phuong, Phung Tan Phat, Doan Hoang Phuong Linh, Tran Van Thuy, Doan Hoang Phuong Thao, Nguyen Chi Binh, Do Dai Nghia. The police agency has issued an arrest warrant for Le Thi Thuy.

The case continues to be investigated and clarified by the Thai Binh Provincial Police Agency. This group of subjects will be subject to deserved punishments for their illegal acts.

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