After two years of delay, the management of Eximbank is expected to meet this week with lawyers of six customers who asked for some VND50 billion of deposits to be returned, Thanh Nien newspaper reports.
The huge sum is said to have been misappropriated by Nguyen Thi Lam, an employee of the bank’s Do Luong branch in Nghe An Province, over a long period of time from March 2011 to August 2016.
In August 2017, after a lengthy investigation, Nghe An Province police concluded that Eximbank’s Nguyen Thi Lam sought to woo depositors by raising interest rates, which attracted many depositors.
Subsequently, Lam cheated them to sign credit transfers and blank payment orders and falsified documents to withdraw about VND50 billion from savings accounts of six victims.
Lam used the money appropriated to pay interest for other customers, purchase real estate, lend it on to others at high interest rates, or build her house.
After the conclusion of Nghe An investigators, Eximbank was requested to pay the whole savings amounting to VND50 billion back to six customers including interest, whereas Nguyen Thi Lam had to reimburse the entire amount appropriated from Eximbank.
Police pressed charges against the case in 2016 with an investigation conclusion made in 2017. However, the bank has still not made the payment, prompting the six victims to hire lawyers to protect their interests.
http://english.thesaigontimes.vn/58794/Customers-ask-Eximbank-to-return-savings.html
