Ho Chi Minh City police have seized a Taiwanese person and nine others for counterfeiting ID cards for use in obtaining ATM cards from banks in Vietnam in order to receive money from scams conducted by a transnational gang.
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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.
According to investigators, in late 2013, Lee was assigned by another Taiwanese, Huang Jin Cheng, who led a transnational swindling gang, to hire people in Vietnam to counterfeit ID cards.
Lee later asked other people to use such cards to obtain ATM cards at various banks in different provinces and cities and then sell them to him for VND1.5 million (US$71.2) apiece.
He provided all of these cards to Huang, who used them as a means of recovering money from scams.
Huang paid Lee a monthly salary of $3,000 for his work.
According to investigators, Huang led an international swindling gang whose members disguised themselves as police officers to cheat their victims in Vietnam and asked them to send their money to ATM accounts opened by Lee’s ring.
In February 2014, Lee arrived in Ho Chi Minh City and hired a number of Chinese Vietnamese to find people who could forge ID cards to open ATM accounts.
Lee later possessed 12 fake ID cards and 184 ATM cards. All of these cards were handed over to L.H.W. and K.H.T., who belonged to the ring led by Lee.
Whenever money that came from scams conducted by Huang was transferred to the above ATM accounts, these two people would use the ATM cards to withdraw the money for Huang’s gang.
On April 23 and 26, police executed search warrants for the homes of Lee Jung Teng, L.H.W., K.H.T., and some other members of the ring, seizing 230 ATM cards, a laptop, and 180 ID cards suspected to be fake.
The police are continuing their investigation into the case.
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