On October 14, Hanoi City Police announced that the Investigation Police Agency had prosecuted Mr. Nguyen Hoa Binh (aka Shark Binh, Chairman of NextTech Group) to investigate the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property".
According to the police, from August to December 2021, Mr. Binh and his colleagues developed and promoted the "AntEx digital currency" project, calling for investment through the establishment of the "Next100 Blockchain" Fund with a commitment to invest 50 million USD in technology projects.
However, this is an unverified project, with signs of transaction manipulation to withdraw money. The founding team issued 33.2 billion AntEx tokens, sold to about 30,000 investors, earning about 117 billion VND.
Notably, during the process of verifying data related to AntEx, the ChainTracer tool developed by the Vietnam Blockchain and Digital Assets Association (VBA) was used to coordinate with the authorities.
According to VBA, the ChainTracer team has participated in analyzing and modeling cash flows on the blockchain, helping authorities identify token movements between wallets, exchanges, and related addresses.
Mr. Tran Huyen Dinh, Head of ChainTracer project, said that the team of experts applied the latest on-chain analysis technology (transaction data recorded publicly on the blockchain network) to identify suspicious wallet clusters and support technical contact with many domestic and foreign exchanges to compare identification information.
Mr. Nguyen Hoa Binh, founder of NextTech Group (Photo: Manh Quan).
Mr. Dinh said that thanks to the public and transparent nature of blockchain, the money flow tracing was done accurately even though the incident took place more than 3 years ago. According to him, this is different from the traditional fraud model, where evidence can be erased.
During this process, according to Mr. Dinh, the biggest difficulty comes from the lack of cooperation of some international exchanges, causing obstacles in identifying and tracing the final beneficiaries.
The investigation agency has temporarily detained and frozen the money, securities accounts, and assets of the subjects, including nearly 600 taels of gold, 18 red books, 2 cars... with a total value of about 900 billion VND.
In addition, according to Hanoi City Police, Shark Binh directed the establishment of NextLand. After a while, he assigned Doan Van Tuan and Nguyen Ha Thuy as legal representatives.
The company assigned Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong, Tran Thi Thuy Van, Nguyen Ha Thuy, and Doan Van Tuan to use accounting records to deal with and conceal the company's appropriation.
Mr. Binh directed his employees to falsify documents, contracts, and payment statements to cover up illegal financial activities, causing especially large losses to investors.
Hanoi police are continuing to expand the investigation and clarify violations and wrongdoings related to member companies in the ecosystem of NextTech Group.
Shark Binh was born in 1981 and is one of the famous businessmen in the technology field in Vietnam. In 2019, Mr. Binh participated in the game show Shark Tank, and the name Shark Binh also appeared from that time.
Associated with Shark Binh's career and reputation is NextTech Group, established in 2013, operating in the fields of fintech (finance - technology), e-commerce, logistics (management - transportation of goods), startup investment (startup businesses) with brands such as Nganluong.vn, BoxMe, mPOS, Vimo...
Source: https://dantri.com.vn/kinh-doanh/vu-shark-binh-bi-bat-he-lo-cong-cu-truy-vet-dong-tien-so-antex-20251015020018285.htm
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