Ho Chi Minh City police have given a fine to a woman for falsely reporting that she was anesthetized and had over US$42,000 stolen from her on a flight on Tuesday.

>> Vietnam man gets 6-month flight ban for bomb joke The woman admitted she committed the false reporting as a way to deal with a family conflict. Police of Ward 2, Tan Binh District, issued Wednesday a decision to fine Nguyen Thi Thang, 28, who resides in the southern province of Binh Duong, for devising a theft aboard a Jetstar Pacific airplane that landed at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in the southern city a day earlier. Under applicable regulations, the fine for such an act ranges from VND500,000 to VND1 million ($47). According to the case file, Thang took Flight BL 521 of Jetstar Pacific from the central city of Vinh to the airport on April 8. After getting off the plane, Thang began crying and told airport security that two men who sat next to her during the flight had anesthetized her and then had stolen VND900 million ($42,700) from the woman. Her report was referred to the Ward 2 police and Thang told investigators that she had lost the money after being drugged by the two unidentified men sitting on either side of hers. Thang told the police that the men had offered her a bottle of drinking water and after drinking it, she fell unconscious until she was woken up by another passenger when the plane landed. When investigators asked her for more details, Thang said she was too tired to tell them anymore. The police and Thang’s relatives took her to some hospitals, including Tan Binh, Thong Nhat, and Trung Vuong, for medical examinations. On the way to these hospitals, Thang asked her relatives to take her home, insisting she was not ill, but they refused. A nurse at Trung Vuong Hospital told Tuoi Tre that Thang was not cooperative with doctors and nurses there.Confession Upon receiving Thang’s report, Tan Binh District police contacted the two men whom Thang had accused. Following some verification, police concluded that there were no signs showing that the men had committed any offense against her. At 8:00 pm on Tuesday, police received test results from Trung Vuong Hospital that indicated no trace of anesthetic or toxic substance in Thang’s urine samples. Police then questioned Thang again about the incident, and she eventually confessed that she had staged the theft as a way to deal with her family’s financial conflicts. Yesterday afternoon, Thang’s husband told Tuoi Tre that he and his wife intended to buy a house in Binh Duong’s Di An Town, and the woman had returned to Vinh, her hometown, to get VND900 million to pay for the purchase. On her way back to the province, she gave the false alarm.

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