On December 28, the source said that related to the case of high-interest loans in civil transactions with a scale of more than 20,000 billion VND, Quang Nam Police coordinated with police units and localities to investigate. destroyed, through expanded investigation phase 2 of the project.
Execution of arrest warrant for temporary detention of Nguyen Quang Tu. Photo: CAQN
The Security Investigation Agency of Quang Nam Provincial Police coordinated with relevant units to execute the decision to prosecute the defendant and arrest the defendant to temporarily detain two subjects to investigate the act of “lending”. heavy interest in civil transactions” includes Nguyen Quang Tu (born 1986, residing in Thai Binh province, Deputy General Director, CEO of HTP Technology Group Joint Stock Company, the unit operating the Omi payment intermediary channel Pay) and Do Minh Tri (born 1995, residing in Hung Yen province, head of the business team of HTP Technology Group Joint Stock Company).
Subject Do Minh Tri. Photo: CAQN
Previously, according to Quang Nam Provincial Police records, through the implementation of professional measures to understand the situation in cyberspace, Quang Nam Provincial Police discovered many people in Quang Nam province and many provinces and cities above. The whole country was lured by criminals to install quick loan apps to borrow money at high interest rates.
Initially determined, from December 2020 to July 2023, a group of Chinese subjects conspired to collude with Vietnamese subjects to use many “ghost” commercial legal entities to organize lending activities. Heavy interest with an interest rate of 2,346.4%/year for over 1,000,000 people nationwide through the “Great Vay” application on mobile phones (including many smaller applications, such as: Abc Tien, cashGo, Like Tien, Vi Dong…) and link to store borrower data at the website whose address is located on the server of Alibaba Cloud Singapore.
Apps that lend money to people who have used them. Photo: CAQN
Through verification results, it was determined that the above group of subjects was a criminal group engaged in organized crime, with extremely sophisticated and complex tricks, with close collusion and connection between the subjects. The Chinese mastermind was the leader and the Vietnamese assisted.
To hide the act of lending at high interest rates and illegally gaining particularly large amounts of money, the subjects established dozens of “ghost” companies, using thousands of bank accounts to circulate cash flow back and forth for the purpose of purpose of “money laundering”, “illegally transferring money across borders”. Along with that, subjects use debt collection activities in a “gangster” style, causing disorder and creating bad public opinion in society.
Based on the documents and evidence collected, Room PA05 reported to the Director of Quang Nam Provincial Police to proactively coordinate with Room 6 of Department A05 to establish a specialized project and coordinate with professional departments under the Ministry of Public Security and provincial police. , the city organized a fight against a group of criminals regarding high-interest lending activities in civil transactions in the form of lending via apps and other related crimes…
Based on the guidance of the leaders of the Ministry of Public Security and the leaders of the Project Steering Committee, on July 3, Quang Nam Provincial Police chaired and coordinated with the People’s Procuracy of Quang Nam Province and the Department of Security. network and preventing and fighting crimes using high technology, Department of Professional Technology, Offline Department of the Ministry of Public Security, Mobile Police Command and Hanoi City Police, Ho Chi Minh City Police, and other police Southeast Province, Khanh Hoa Provincial Police… simultaneously deployed professional measures to solve the case as planned.
The results of the case have clarified the methods, operational tricks and behavior of the subjects involved; Eliminate an organized, transnational crime ring consisting of many gangs operating under the management of 11 leaders (including 3 Chinese nationals) and 49 suspects. Vietnamese people help.
The subjects set up many “ghost” companies to operate loan sharks. Photo: CAQN
Also on July 3, the Security Investigation Agency of Quang Nam Provincial Police carried out an urgent search warrant for 3 intermediary payment companies and 28 locations, and summoned 60 related subjects. to work; confiscated many related objects and documents, 2 cars, 1 large motorbike, blocked transactions of 11 real estate (worth over 70 billion VND), more than 100 computers and phones. types and many other important documents and evidence; Blocked 88 bank accounts with an amount of more than 36 billion VND.
The initial investigation determined that the total amount of money committed by the criminals through intermediary payment companies and loan sharks up to the time of arrest was 20,000 billion VND, illegally profiting the above amount. 8,000 billion VND, organizing money laundering and illegally transferring illegal profits out of Vietnam with an amount of over 5,000 billion VND…