Tran Van Tuan and his wife, under the guise of a legitimate project with a dredging permit, illegally mined black stone, generating tens of billions of dong in profit.
Following their father's arrest, Nguyen Quoc Son, 50, and his wife continued to fraudulently sell land plots within the Phu Quoc airport project, misappropriating 6.6 billion VND.
Nguyen Thi Cam Hong has been sentenced to life in prison for orchestrating a real estate scam that defrauded nearly 1,000 people out of more than 486 billion VND.
A boss who bought food for his team, excluding one employee, has been ruled by a court to have committed an act of retaliation, violating labor law, and ordered to pay £5,500 (191 million VND) in compensation.
Tran Anh Dung, 31, confessed to robbing a gold shop due to unemployment, debt, and having to pawn many possessions. He dragged a female employee while escaping.
Hoang Manh Cuong, general director of Phat An Gia Company, has been sentenced to life in prison for fabricating 6 non-existent projects and fraudulently selling land plots to 115 customers, misappropriating 144 billion VND.
New law prohibits selling personal health data to insurance companies, bans social media platforms from requiring ID for account verification, and mandates businesses to delete former employees’ personal data.
The Ministry of Public Security has proposed allowing online renewals of citizen identity cards through the public service portal for those whose information needs updating due to administrative boundary changes.
Tran Anh Dung, 31, posed as a customer at a Vinh Loc Commune gold shop, grabbed a ring, and fled on his motorbike, dragging an employee who tried to stop him.
Instead of issuing fines, traffic police in Khanh Hoa made a group of teens celebrating a soccer victory do squats as a warning for riding without helmets and carrying too many passengers.
A scorned lover, Chu Ngoc Lan, in a fit of rage, poured 5 liters of gasoline into his girlfriend's house, threatening to "make it the brightest on the street," before setting it ablaze.
24-year-old Le Van Truong admitted to fatally beating his girlfriend's 5-year-old son in a fit of anger, causing the child's death from hemorrhagic shock and ruptured liver and spleen.
Phan Hoang Phuong admitted allowing staff to engage in prostitution but required them to write a "leave request for family matters," dress discreetly, and not return to the establishment to avoid detection.
The Nam An (Kingsway) apartment project has been stalled for five years, and the death of the investor during an investigation has left nearly 500 families without homes.