Simon Leviev, the subject of the hit Netflix documentary 'The Tinder Swindler', was arrested for allegedly stealing over 52,000 USD from a woman in Berlin.
Rejecting the argument that "a person without power cannot abuse power", the court ruled that a village head, as an elected official, is subject to penalties for misconduct, even if they did not personally profit.
Dinh Truong Chinh initially claimed innocence, stating he was merely a buyer. However, he now admits wrongdoing in purchasing four land plots from Vinafood II without proper auction procedures.
The court determined that the parents had given the entire 1,200 m2 plot to their 4th child, who received the land title in 2005 and has used the land without dispute, making the siblings' claims for division unfounded.
Two Chinese men who borrowed hundreds of thousands of yuan to gamble at the Hoiana Casino were held captive and assaulted by their compatriots after failing to repay their debts.
Four individuals from Hanoi rented several houses in Son Tra and Hai Chau districts of Da Nang to run a loan shark operation, charging an annual interest rate of 1,580%, nearly 80 times the legal limit.
Do Van Huu has been ordered by a court to demolish a newly built house after mistakenly constructing it on someone else's property, but he is appealing the decision.
Nguyen Van Thanh, 42, and his accomplices stand accused of forging documents for 250,000 square meters of public land in Vung Tau and selling it to a wealthy businessman, defrauding him of over 174 billion VND.
Knowing a business was illegally subdividing and selling land in Phu Quoc, Vu Van Nam and three fellow reporters threatened and extorted billions of dong.
Pham Van Tam has been sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison and fined 2 billion VND for smuggling electronics and assembling imported parts into finished products without issuing invoices.
Dinh Truong Chinh is on trial for allegedly acquiring four public properties in Saigon Ward from Vinafood II without auction, immediately reselling them for a profit of 970 billion VND.
Nam, representing his siblings, demands his fourth brother share over 1,000 of the 1,200 m2 of land inherited from their parents to build an ancestral hall, in a lawsuit lasting over two years.
The suspicious death of Lee-Ann Shannon in her bathtub exposes a scandalous affair between her husband, local politician Tim Shannon, and their 20-year-old nanny.
Suspecting a 16-year-old boy had fallen prey to an "easy, high-paying job" scam while traveling alone to southern Vietnam, bus driver Ta Cong Luan stopped his vehicle and reported the situation to the Duc Pho Traffic Police Station.
Sen Vang company faces lawsuit over alleged trademark infringement of "Miss Grand Vietnam", but argues the plaintiff has not yet received trademark protection for the name.
39 suspects operating in Cambodia have been arrested for allegedly impersonating police officers, tricking 400 people into installing a malicious VNeID application, and stealing over 160 billion VND.
