Ho Bich Ngan and her accomplices advertised jobs with "room and board" to lure five underage girls into their massage parlor and force them to work off fabricated debts.
After rescuing a young woman from an online kidnapping scheme, Nguyen Hong Manh, deputy police chief of Xuan Lap ward, received threats from a group impersonating police officers, saying they would report him and have him removed from his position.
A 14-year-old girl was lured into debt, forced to work at a karaoke bar, and subsequently kidnapped, with her captors demanding a ransom for her release.