90 Vietnamese scammed by Japan job offer

Nguyen Viet Vuong at a police station in HCMC, facing charges for a Japan job scam. Photo by VnExpress/Nhat Vy

HCMC police are investigating a man that had swindled VND8 billion ($352,000) from 90 people en route to work in Japan.

Nguyen Viet Vuong, 31, is charged for "fraudulent appropriation of assets."

As head of the southern representative office of Ho Chi Minh City-based Atlantic JSC, Vuong had cooperated with Luong Cong Quang, director of Japan Human Resource Development and Training Center in Thu Duc City, a subsidiary of Vietcom Human Resource Supply and Trade JSC, to offer services to send laborers to work abroad.

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