VietNamNet Bridge - Due to losses in business, a teacher intimidated two gold shops in Hanoi to ask for money.

Ms. Tran Thi Kim Khuyen, the owner of Phu Nguyen gold shop in Cau Giay District, Hanoi, one of the two stores being threatened by a former teacher named Nguyen, said: "In the middle of September, I received phone calls from strange numbers, made by a same man. He asked me to give him VND500 million ($25,000) at a secret place, otherwise he would blow up my shop."

At first Khuyen thought that it was a joke but phone calls repeated with the same contents. Khuyen and her family were extremely panicky.

Khuyen reported the case to the police. At the same time, the police was also reported a similar case, which occurred for the Kim Chung gold shop, also in Cau Giay district.

The police sent the task force to protect the two gold shops 24/7.

On the other hand, the police arranged for gold shop owners to prepare money in according to the terrorist’s request. The terrorist was arrested when he was taking money from a dustbin on the street.

Blackmailing gold shops to pay debts



At the police station, the terrorist is identified as Hoang Quang Nguyen, born 1984 in Thai Nguyen province.

Nguyen said he was a teacher of a primary school in Thai Nguyen who had just gone to Hanoi for several weeks.

Nguyen claimed that he needed money to pay his debts so he blackmailed gold shops.

Nguyen said he and his friends opened an advertising firm. However, due to losses, they borrowed a lot of money. To pay the debts, Nguyen intimidated tow gold shops to ask for the money.

Nguyen said he chose Phu Nguyen and Duc Chung gold shops for terrorism was accidentally. He went through these gold shops and noted their phone numbers and called them to intimidate for money.

After failing in intimidating Phu Nguyen gold shop, Nguyen turned to Duc Chung gold shop. When he was taking money from a dustbin, he was arrested.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Ha, Nguyen's mother said that before leaving home, to have money to do business, Nguyen mortgaged two pieces of land of his family to borrow money and gave up his job at a primary school.

Mai Lan