Nguyen Duc Hung, 25, Hoang Dinh Tai, 27, Nguyen Phung Hoang, 22, and Nguyen Anh Tuan, 26, are being investigated for “fraudulent appropriation of assets.”
The police seized six phones, four laptops, VND130 million, and 37 bank accounts from them.
Earlier, the Cybersecurity and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department of Bac Ninh Police discovered that the account “HOANG_COIN_247” showed signs of fraud, and illegally accessing accounts to appropriate assets from Binance app users, so they launched an investigation.
They found that Hung had learned how to illegally access users’ accounts on the cryptocurrency exchange Binance.com.
He and other accomplices then bought Binance accounts, linked them to burner phone numbers for communication, and set up connections with non-official bank accounts for payments.
Once these accounts were set up, the group accessed Binance.com, placed orders to buy a certain amount of cryptocurrency (USDT), and…
