From left, Jose Aureliano Rosas Pena, Luis Alexander Rodriguez Cuevro, Jersain Ladino Cardona, Carlos Alberto Lamprea Pena, and Fabian Lucero Wilches. (Photo courtesy of the Hanoi Department of Police) Hanoi (VNA) – The Hanoi People’s Court on April 18 sentenced fiveColombian nationals to between seven and 13 years imprisonment on charges of“property theft” in accordance with Article 138 of the Penal Code.
The ring leader Fabian Lucero Wilches, bornin 1982, received a jail sentence of 13 years, while Jersain Ladino Cardona,1966, and Jose Aureliano Rosas Pena, 1962, both were sentenced to 12 years inprison.
A 10-year sentence was imposed on CarlosAlberto Lamprea Pena, 1970, while Luis Alexander Rodriguez Cuevro, born in 1977,got seven years.
According to the indictment, the men metwhile travelling in Laos and Cambodia in 2017. They then regularly contactedeach other via the messenger application Whatsapp and decided to come toVietnam to steal from people who had just left banks or currency exchangeshops.
After following the victims, the thievespunctured their vehicle’s tires with a knife, forcing them to go to repairshops to replace the tires.
They took advantage of the time the victimshad their tires repaired to steal gold and cash worth more than 500 million VND(21,900 USD) from Nguyen Van Ngoc in Hoan Kiem district on February 22, 2017 and 1.6 billion VND(70,400 USD) from Pham Binh Minh in Dong Da district on March 28, 2017.-VNA
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