Ngoc Le, Thanh Nien News
Nike’s slogan is “Just do it” but for a team of four criminals who stole thousands of items from the factory in Vietnam, they took it a little too far. Police in Saigon arrested four men who worked at the factory.
A team of four Nike factory workers in Vietnam were arrested for stealing thousands of items and reselling it on the black market. (Photo: Peter Sung)
Phan Cong Thinh, 28, was caught at the Freetrend Industrial VN Company, a contract manufacturer, sneaking out with 10 pairs of shoes. Two others, Nguyen Thi Dieu, 43, the ring leader, and Tran Thi Lan, 39, were arrested later following Thinh’s confession.
The last one to be arrested, on the same day, was Nguyen Hoang Dat, 45, who buys all the stolen shoes from the trio and sells for a profit. Searching the suspects’ houses, authorities discovered hundreds of shoes and shoe parts like soles, laces and stamps. Police said Lan, a team leader at the factory, had persuaded several other workers to steal finished shoes, while Dieu and Thinh carried them out of the factory.
The gang also operated at garment plants making Nike clothes across the country — Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Hanoi, Hai Phong — stealing hundreds of pieces every day.
Authorities believe the shoe parts and clothing were usually hidden around their middle by women workers so that security guards did not spot them. They were then hidden beneath trucks carrying materials and transported out of the plant. Police are looking for more possible accomplices.
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