{"id":62341,"date":"2015-10-16T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62341"},"modified":"2015-10-16T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T14:54:11","slug":"vietnamese-man-gets-life-for-mia-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62341","title":{"rendered":"Vietnamese man gets life for MIA scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/vietnam-sentences-7-defrauding-families-mia-soldiers-115854264.html\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Vietnamese government sentenced Nguyen Van Thuy to life in prison for stealing more than 70 sets of remains of unidentified bodies from the war and then convincing families that those remains were their family members. The article says that there are more than 200,000 Vietnamese soldiers still missing from the war making it easy pickings for fraudsters like Thuy and his family. By the way, he wasn&#8217;t the only one convicted &#8211; his wife and four other relatives were sentenced for up to 25 years for their participation in the fraud.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thuy, who claimed to have paranormal power, and his accomplices cheated $363,000 from a charitable fund set up by the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies and from 12 Vietnamese families by charging a fee to find the dead and missing soldiers, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The families paid Thuy 100 million dong for his services. That&#8217;s a lot of dongs &#8211; but about $4500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that the Vietnamese government sentenced Nguyen Van Thuy to life in prison &hellip; <a title=\"Vietnamese man gets life for MIA scam\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62341\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vietnamese man gets life for MIA scam<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}