Vietnam man arrested for stealing uncle’s bones to extort US$203,000 from family to pay debts
Man uses a shovel to dig a 20cm hole in uncle’s grave before removing some of his remains, concealing them in a pile of rubbish
A man in Vietnam has committed a shocking act by stealing his uncle’s skull and bones from a grave.
He attempted to extort 5 billion Vietnamese dong (US$203,000) from the deceased man’s family to settle his gambling debts.
On September 9, 37-year-old Luu Thanh Nam, from Thanh Hoa province in northern Vietnam, used a shovel to dig a 20cm hole in his uncle’s grave. He removed some of his uncle’s remains and concealed them in a nearby pile of rubbish.
The deceased was the father of Nam’s cousin, Luu Thanh Hoi, and had passed away four years earlier, as reported by the Vietnamese media outlet Daidoanket.
The following day, Nam sent a threatening text message to Hoi’s wife using an anonymous phone number, demanding payment for the return of the bones and warning that if they contacted the police, they would never recover the remains.