Tran Quang Dat (34 years old) and his accomplices bought a gold necklace and bracelet weighing 3.5 taels, then forged the model and returned to the pawn shop, appropriating hundreds of millions of dong.
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Tran Quang Dat and Pham Thanh Toan at the police station. |
On July 4, Tran Quang Dat in Ha Tinh province and Pham Thanh Toan (41 years old) in Kien Giang province were detained by the Hoai Nhon Town Police (Binh Dinh) for fraud and property appropriation.
The investigation agency is coordinating with police in many provinces and cities to expand the case and arrest related suspects.
According to the investigation, in the past, Dat, Toan and many accomplices bought real jewelry and brought it back to make models out of silver and gold. After that, they sold the fake jewelry or pawned it to stores.
In November 2022, Dat went to a gold shop in Hoai Nhon town to buy a 1.5-tael gold necklace and a 2-tael bracelet, along with a purchase receipt worth nearly 190 million VND, and then brought them back to his rented room in Dong Nai province. There, Dat and Toan used silver to make fake necklaces and bracelets according to the real model and then plated them with gold on the outside. The two subjects sold the real jewelry to a gold and silver shop in Dong Nai province to spend the money.
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Police seized the evidence. |
Next, Dat and Toan took the old invoice, along with the fake necklace and bracelet, and returned to the gold shop in Hoai Nhon to pawn it. The shop owner looked at the invoice and the jewelry, thinking it was theirs, so he agreed to pawn it for 170 million VND.
At this time, in the provinces of Khanh Hoa, Lam Dong, Gia Lai, Kien Giang... many gold shop owners also fell into similar traps.
After a period of surveillance, on June 28, the Hoai Nhon Town Police coordinated with functional forces to inspect the boarding house of Dat and Toan in Long Duc Commune, Long Thanh District, Dong Nai Province. The police arrested the two suspects, confiscated many gold and silver jewelry and tools and machines used to make fake gold.
Initially, Dat and Toan admitted to making fake gold to defraud shop owners in Hoai Nhon and several jewelry stores in other provinces.
Investigators assessed that this group operated in a sophisticated manner, using fake license plates to travel from the southern provinces to the central region to commit fraud. They also supplied fake gold to other fraud groups.
According to VnExpress
trapping a series of gold shop owners, Tran Quang Dat, fake necklaces and bracelets, Pham Thanh Toan
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