Vietnam man arrested for stealing uncle’s bones to extort US$203,000 from family to pay debts

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..