Family Denies Helping Son Hide House and Mercedes Bought With Embezzled Money

Nguyen Trung Kien and several family members have gone on trial on charges of fraud and money laundering.

According to the indictment, Kien sold packaging worth more than VND 107 billion without issuing invoices to customers. After his actions were discovered, he allegedly asked his parents, sister and other relatives to hold in their names a range of illicit assets, including cash, gold, a Mercedes car and real estate worth more than VND 25 billion in total.

At the trial, all of the family members involved denied knowing that the assets registered in their names came from illegal sources.