On January 11, the People’s Court of Hanoi sentenced Nguyen Thi Ha (52 years old, from Dong Da district) to 12 years in prison for the crime of “Fraudulent appropriation of assets“.
According to the indictment, in 2022, Nguyen Thi Ha was sentenced to 15 months in prison by the People’s Court of Hoan Kiem District The crime of “fraudulent appropriation of property”; was sentenced to 4 years in prison by the People’s Court of Dong Da District for “Gambling”. While waiting for trial, Ha lacked money to spend and had an intention to cheat.
The investigation records show that, on February 24, 2022, Ha bought things at a store on Ton Duc Thang street (Dong Da district, Hanoi) and knew the store manager as Ms. VTH (28 years old). Through talking, Ha knows that Ms. H. has not had a husband and children, so the advertisement has the ability to read fortune-telling.
After “looking into her destiny”, Ha said that Ms. H. was “died” so her love life was difficult. If you want love, you need”cut the charm“. Ms. H. following hearing that, asked Ha for help.
From February 24 to April 5, 2022, Ha repeatedly asked Ms. H. to give money for the ceremony, the form of transaction was cash, transfer or gold. The indictment determined that the female victim gave Ha nearly 1.4 billion dong, 2 gold threads, a gold chain.
All the money and assets above, Ha did not perform the ceremony according to the commitment, but used it for personal consumption, buying motorbikes, phones…
After being denounced, Ha and the people involved took the initiative to return to the investigating agency nearly 400 million VND, a motorbike, a phone and 2 gold rings.
Combined with the two previous cases, the general penalty that Ha must receive is 17 years and 3 months in prison.