On November 28, the Investigation Police Agency of Da Nang City Police announced the indictment of 10 additional individuals involved in a large-scale transnational money laundering scheme.
Indictment of individuals involved in a transnational money laundering scheme totaling 67 trillion VND. |
The 10 indicted individuals are: Le Van Ngoc Duy (Dak Lak), Phan Duc Hau (Hue), Ho Le Vu Hoai (Quang Ngai), Nguyen Truc Mai (Nghe An), Cao Ngoc Son (Khanh Hoa), Vo Dai Luong (Khanh Hoa), Dinh Ngoc Long (Gia Lai), Nguyen Minh Sang (Gia Lai), Chau The Anh (Quang Tri), and Nguyen Van Tuan (Quang Tri).
According to the police, the expanded investigation revealed that the total money laundering transactions amounted to over 67 trillion VND, along with 43 million USD, 1.5 million EUR, and 1 million CAD.
Authorities have frozen more than 1,000 bank accounts, seized approximately 100 billion VND, impounded two land plots, and confiscated numerous tools used for forging documents (15 engraving machines, printers, computers, 500 fake seals and seal molds, nearly 100 fake ID cards and ID card templates), as well as 1,200 pages of company registration documents.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the group colluded with bank employees, using fake documents to open over 1,000 phantom company accounts and purchasing around 10,000 non-genuine personal accounts to supply to criminal groups in Cambodia for fraud and money laundering activities.
The Economic Police Department has recorded dozens of victims in Da Nang, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho, and other localities, with one case involving a loss of up to 12 billion VND.
Previously, in the first phase of the investigation, the Economic Police Department of Da Nang City Police had initiated legal proceedings and charged 13 suspects with “money laundering,” “illegal trading of bank account information,” and “forgery and use of seals and documents of agencies and organizations.”
Investigators determined that from 2022 to late 2024, T.Q.T (born in 1989, residing in Da Nang) forged citizen ID cards to register 187 companies and created fake seals to open over 600 corporate accounts, selling them to criminal entities.
The total transaction amount through these accounts was nearly 30 trillion VND, with foreign exchange transactions estimated at over 300 billion VND. T.Q.T’s network had multiple accomplices.
In the second phase of the investigation, the Economic Police Department of Da Nang City Police initiated legal proceedings and charged an additional 20 suspects.
HAI DINH
– 19:20 28/11/2025
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