According to reports from the Vietnam Legal Gazette, Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security has disclosed developments in the ONUS digital currency case. The Ministry’s Security Investigation Agency (A09) said the police opened the case on March 23, 2026, and brought charges against 8 defendants. The alleged crimes include misappropriating property using computer networks, telecommunications networks, or electronic means, and money laundering. The police said that since 2018, the individuals involved have created circular transactions through digital currencies and multiple “ecosystem companies” to attract individual investors, and that the total amount of electronic currency sold to investors exceeded 7000 billion Vietnamese dong (approximately US$28.4 million). So far, the police have received more than 2,000 reports, initially seized more than 350 kilograms of gold and silver, and prevented real estate transactions at 8 locations valued at 2000 billion Vietnamese dong (approximately US$7.7 million).