Judicial official arrested in Vietnam for faking marriage papers

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Judicial official arrested in Vietnam for faking marriage papers

Thanh Nien News

June 23, 2006

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Police in Vietnam's southern Tay Ninh province have arrested a judicial official on charges of taking bribes to make forged marriage certificates between Vietnamese women and foreign men.

Luu Thi Ngoc Lien, 35, of the Tay Ninh Judiciary Department, will remain in custody for four months and the police have also arrested two others, Tran Hong Lac, 32, and Tran Thi Lan, 41, brokers for a company that arranged marriages between Vietnamese and foreigners, for giving bribes.

Lac and Lan bribed Lien who was in charge of delivering marriage documents to registered couples, into doctoring marriage registration documents.

The scam surfaced when the Republic of Korea consulate in Ho Chi Minh City received a marriage registration document between a Vietnamese woman and a Korean man and found it had suspicious modifications.

The Tay Ninh police investigated and discovered seven sets of marriage documents, forged by Lien and her accomplices, of which two did not have the husband's signature

For every successful document, Lien received VND3 million ($187.5) while Lac received $600 and Lan VND200,000 ($12.5) from the foreign groom.

Reported by Minh Thuan – Translated by Thu Thuy

Edited June 24, 2006 by STL_HCMC

[Matt_Stevens 5]

$12? He should've asked for more than that.

[Kevin&Loan 0]

Corruption has been, is and will always be the national problem in Vietnam.

[phong+mai 0]

Corruption has been, is and will always be the national problem in Vietnam.

Looking at it subjectively, you're going to find corruption regardless of where you live, it all depends on how hard you look. Some countries are better than others at hiding corruption, or they take on other forms less obvious. Personally, I can afford a $12 or $200 bribe... it's much more expensive to get the same results here in the U.S... Think of it as the cost of doing business

[justin728jn 0]

"corruption regardless of where you live" is an understatement. It's the fact the corruption is a way of life in vietnam.

[STL_HCMC 0]

And it eventually cost them!

...Think of it as the cost of doing business

[sweetiewynn 0]

The article is a little unclear as to the how where and why's related to it all. From what I get this must have been part of a scam involving the suspects mentioned in the article, but also must have included people buying a visa from someone and I would think also involved someone in Korea who would have to be posing as a husband or a wife or whatever for the person who bought the visa. Then the person who had bought the visa would also have to go along with some story... This all sounds so elaborately created and has so many people involved but we ned more information. Anyone who knows, please post.

[dalegg 143]

$12? He should've asked for more than that.

It says they Received $12.50 from the foreign groom. What marriage scam involves a foreign groom paying any money at all unless he really wanted the marriage? Usually brokers charge foreign men at least a couple hundred when they are selling women as slaves. Where is the Vietnamese IMBRA?