Investigators discovered that to carry out their plans, the suspects had formed a total of 250 companies, directly or through third parties, and opened more than 100 fraudulent bank accounts that they used for criminal activities.
According to the VN Express news service, earlier this month police received reports that a company in Ukraine had been scammed by a criminal group that asked it to transfer money to certain bank accounts in the southern metropolis.
The criminals tricked foreign entities into giving them money that they would then transfer to others formed in Vietnam, posing as partners of the scammed companies.
Tracing the flow of money, police discovered that it was transferred several times before being withdrawn and taken to Cambodia.
The experts managed to discover that the network was a foreign group that cooperated with Vietnamese collaborators and after determining their identities and exact locations, they detained 13 citizens, including two Nigerians.
Two raids carried out as part of the operation resulted in the confiscation of nine billion VND (about $355,000) and $1.5 million in cash, along with other foreign currencies.
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