The criminal police division of the Da Nang Police Department said on Aug. 2 that it had named five men as accused in a robbery case and placed them in temporary detention.
They are Truong Van Ngoc Toan, 33, Ho Tan Cau, 42, Nguyen Quoc Quang, 39, Huynh Tan Tai, 34, and Tran Van Duc, 37.
At around 3 a.m. on Aug. 23, 2023, Toan and Cau offered the two foreign tourists Andreas Myrup, then 21, and William Trollund, then 20, a ride back to their hotel in Tra Que, a herb-growing village on the edge of Hoi An. The fare was set at VND40,000 ($1.50).
Quang, Tai and Duc, who worked the same patch, saw the pair pick up foreign passengers and followed on their own motorbikes.
Investigators found the three were looking to engineer confusion at the moment of payment in order to take more cash from the passengers.
