Con Man Pleads Guilty to Fraud in Grenfell Tower Fire<br />He said that his wife and son had perished in the blaze and<br />that he had lost all of his "worldly possessions." After registering at a relief center for disaster victims in June, Mr. Nguyen was given free accommodation worth more than $3,000 at a nearby Holiday Inn as well as food, electrical goods and money from various charity funds.<br />2, 2017<br />LONDON — A 52-year-old con man with 28 convictions pleaded guilty to fraud on Thursday for having tried to collect 12,500 pounds, or about $16,000, in financial assistance by falsely claiming<br />that his family had died in the Grenfell Tower fire in London.<br />Anh Nhu Nguyen, a Vietnamese man who lives in southeastern London, posed as a survivor<br />for at least two weeks after the fire on June 14 that killed at least 80 people.<br />Bartle said that This is a case of fraud, but one which has a contemptible element to it, succeeding in receiving money out of the misery<br />and tragedy of people who, unlike this defendant, genuinely suffered because of this terrible fire,<br />After the fire, he gave extensive interviews to several news media outlets claiming<br />that he had become separated from his wife and 12-year-old son as they tried to escape from the tower’s 15th floor through a smoke-filled stairwell.<br />The police have investigated at least eight cases of fraud relating to people who have claimed money from various Grenfell fire relief funds.
