Knowing his ex-wife had a lot of money, Pham Thanh Son waited for her to go to Switzerland, then returned home to take 75,000 CHF, equivalent to over 2,4 billion VND, which he then took to Cambodia to gamble.
Kien Huu Tin, posing as a wedding guest, lured the bride from her room before smashing a gift money box and absconding with over 90 million dong, which he then used to buy presents for his girlfriend.
Nguyen Bao Dong agreed to purchase paper production equipment for 1,2 ty dong but failed to pay, then falsely claimed ownership to sell it as scrap and embezzled 240 trieu dong in deposit funds.
Teenage twins Tran Nhat Trung and Tran Nhat Quoc, 17, were apprehended after more than a day following a break-in at a store in Ngu Hanh Son ward, Da Nang, where they stole 27 phones valued at over 400 million VND.
Enola Lugai, 39, a foreign national, was arrested after breaking into a resort villa and stealing a rolex watch along with other assets valued at over 500 million dong.