On November 25, the Bac Giang Provincial Police, in coordination with professional units of the Ministry of Public Security and the Quang Ngai Provincial Police, conducted an administrative inspection at an office on the fourth floor of No. 265, Nguyen Cong Phuong Street, Ward 8, Quang Ngai City, Quang Ngai Province. They discovered 19 individuals, including the ringleader, Le Van Trieu (DOB: 1992), a resident of Nghia Ky, Tu Nghia, Quang Ngai City, with signs of “Defamation” and “Extortion” offenses.
The authorities seized 44 mobile phones, 22 computer sets, and numerous objects, documents, and data related to the case during a raid on Le Van Trieu and his accomplices’ workplace. With the active support of the Quang Ngai Provincial Police, the Bac Giang investigation team summoned and escorted Le Van Trieu and the 18 associates from Quang Ngai to Bac Giang for further proceedings.
 Le Van Trieu, the mastermind
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Initial investigations by the Bac Giang City Police Investigation Agency revealed that Le Van Trieu formed two groups to obtain customer information, make threatening calls, send defamatory messages, and manipulate sensitive images to extort money from bank and financial organization customers. If the customers failed to pay their debts, the group would locate their workplaces and exert pressure on their colleagues, superiors, or family members to coerce debt repayment.
The defendants and exhibits being escorted to the Bac Giang Provincial Police Headquarters
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Le Van Trieu hired Nguyen Thi My Duyen (DOB: 1998) and Le Thi Thuy (DOB: 1990), both from Quang Ngai, to manage and supervise the employees. He rented the office space, purchased necessary equipment such as computers, mobile phones, “junk” SIM cards, and “impersonated” SIM cards, and acquired information about the debtors and their relatives, colleagues, and superiors. The group then used these SIM cards to create anonymous accounts on Zalo, Telegram, and Facebook to make threatening calls, send offensive messages, and manipulate sensitive images to be posted on these social media platforms, creating pressure and forcing customers to repay their debts.
The investigation agency of Bac Giang City Police initially determined that the defendants had extorted money from the customers’ relatives and the customers themselves, amounting to between VND 300 million and VND 400 million. The defendants received 21% of this total amount.
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