Alibaba’s fake property project in Ba Ria-Vung Tau demolished
Alibaba’s fake property project in Ba Ria-Vung Tau demolished
The government of Phu My Town in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, with the help of the authorities at the Chau Pha Commune, on July 22 moved to undo construction works on an illegal property project on a land lot sold by the Alibaba Group.
Nguyen Ngoc Su, who resides in Hanoi City, is the owner of the land lot covering 24,500 square meters in Chau Pha Commune of Phu My Town on which the scam project is located. The project was being developed as ‘the Alibaba Tan Thanh Center City 1 Project’ without a license.
At 7.30 a.m. today, July 22, seven excavators and over 100 officers were dispatched to the construction site to dig up construction components of the project, including asphalted internal roads, pavements and sewage and drainage pipelines, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported.
The officials demolished such components on the project with the help of the town’s police, the Justice Office, the Office of Natural Resources and Environment, the urban management board, the commune’s healthcare center, the provincial police, and other units.
A representative of Alibaba said that from April, 2017 to October last year, the firm offered 346 land lots valued at VND189 billion for the project, earning over VND102 billion from the sale of lots, according to the Ba Ria-Vung Tau police.
About 80% of the infrastructure of the scam project had been completed, the police said.
The authorities at the commune confirmed that the land owner had yet to obtain a business license for the project.
Earlier, an administrative fine of VND3.5 million had been imposed on the project by the government of Tan Thanh District, which is Phu My Town now, for wrong use of agricultural land. The government had also asked the investor to stop using the farmland for unauthorized purposes and restore the status of the land, but the owner had failed to comply with the directive.
