On 18/8/2022, the Da Nang Police Investigation Agency indicted Nguyen Bao Dong, 48, a resident of Ba Na commune, for property fraud under clause 3, Article 174 of the Penal Code.

Investigations revealed that in late 7/2022, Dong contacted the director of a business to inquire about purchasing nine non-synchronous paper production equipment tubes, valued at 1,2 ty dong. After inspecting the goods, Dong agreed to the purchase even though he lacked the funds for payment, intending to resell the assets to another party.

Dong sent photographs of the machinery to a 39-year-old woman residing in Nui Thanh commune, falsely stating that it was his property. He offered to sell it as scrap iron at 9.500 dong per kilogram.

Suspect Nguyen Bao Dong at the police station. *Thanh Huynh*

On 1/8/2022, the woman, trusting Dong, transferred a 40 trieu dong deposit. To secure the goods and build trust with the actual owner, Dong transferred 30 trieu dong from this amount to the business.

On the morning of 3/8/2022, when the woman dispatched two tractor-trailers to the warehouse for pickup, Dong demanded an additional 200 trieu dong from the buyer. Upon receiving the full amount, Dong did not pay the equipment owner but instead used the money for rent and worker salaries.

Believing she had purchased the scrap lot, the woman instructed her workers to dismantle the nine equipment tubes to extract the iron for loading onto the vehicles. However, the owning business prevented the vehicles from leaving, as they had not received payment for the goods. Dong, citing distance, avoided coming to resolve the situation.

Unable to contact Dong, the victim discovered the deception and had to negotiate directly with the actual owner to repurchase the iron.

The investigation agency determined that Dong used deceptive tactics regarding ownership rights to embezzle 240 trieu dong from the victim for his personal gain.

The case remains under investigation.

Ngoc Truong