Ho Chi Minh City police arrested Friday three Taiwanese people and a Vietnamese woman for hiring others to counterfeit ATM cards for use in swindles to appropriate assets.
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These Taiwanese include Liu Minh Chieh, 37, Chung Ming Shih, 46, and Chen Yen Hao, 41. The arrested woman is Tran Thi Ngoc Hien, 22, who lives in Binh Chanh District.
All the four have been charged with “appropriating property through swindling” under Article 239 of the Penal Code, police said.
Initial investigations showed that these swindlers hired a number of people to forge ATM cards for use in their fraud.
They later lured their victims to transfer money to designated bank accounts. After such transfers were made, they used fake ATM cards to withdraw the money from these accounts.
Police are expanding their investigation into the case to identify and track down the ATM card counterfeiters.
Several days ago, HCMC police also seized a Taiwanese person and nine others for counterfeiting ID cards for use in obtaining ATM accounts from banks in Vietnam in order to receive money from scams conducted by a transnational gang.
The Taiwanese, 25-year-old Lee Jung Teng, and his accomplices have been charged with forging seals and/or documents of agencies and/or organizations.
On April 23 and 26, police executed search warrants for the homes of Lee and his accomplices, seizing 230 ATM cards, a laptop, and 180 ID cards suspected to be fake.
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