China experts detained near HCMC over inside job

The nails seized by police yesterday

Police in southern Vietnam yesterday detained five employees, including two Chinese experts, of a company for suspicion they colluded to steal nails and screws worth over US$47,900 from their own firm.
At dawn yesterday, local police in Binh Duong province near Ho Chi Minh City caught a driver and an interpreter of Airoware Co., Ltd., in Dong An Industrial Park, transporting about 30 tons nails and screws without documents about the origin of the goods.
The interpreter is Doan Van Bau, 24, and the driver is Pham Van Cuong, 28, from northern Tuyen Quang province.
The two men later confessed to the police that they had colluded with the two foreign experts and a security guard, Nguyen Van Thanh, 28, to steal the goods from their company.
They planned to sell the nails and screws, which had recently been produced, to a metal scrap trader for VND8,000 (US$0,38) per kilogram, while the total value of the allegedly stolen goods is more than VND1 billion (US$47,900).
If their declaration is true, the difference between the sales of the goods as scrap and the real value of the goods will be about $36,500.
The police later decided to detain the two Chinese and the security guard for investigation.
source: tuoitrenews

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