In Article 169, the 2015 Penal Code (amended and supplemented in 2017) stipulates the crime of kidnapping to appropriate property as follows:

1. Anyone who kidnaps another person as a hostage in order to appropriate property shall be sentenced to between 02 and 07 years of imprisonment.

2. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punished with imprisonment from 5 to 12 years:

a) Organized;

b) Be professional in nature;

c) Using weapons, means or other dangerous tricks;

d) For people under 16 years old;

d) For 02 or more people;

e) Appropriating property worth from 50,000,000 VND to under 200,000,000 VND;

g) Causing injury or harm to the health of a person held hostage with a bodily injury rate of between 11% and 30%;

h) Causes mental and behavioral disorders of the victim from 11% to 45%;

i) Causes adverse effects on security, order and social safety;

k) Dangerous recidivism.

3. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punished with imprisonment from 10 to 18 years:

a) Appropriating property worth from 200,000,000 VND to under 500,000,000 VND;

b) Causing injury or harm to the health of a person held hostage with a bodily injury rate of between 31% and 60%;

c) Causing mental and behavioral disorders of the victim of 46% or more.

4. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punished with imprisonment from 15 to 20 years or life imprisonment:

a) Appropriating property worth VND 500,000,000 or more;

b) Inflicting injury or causing harm to the health of 01 person with a bodily injury rate of 61% or more or causing injury or harm to the health of 02 or more people with a bodily injury rate of each person 31% or more;

c) Causing mental and behavioral disorders in 02 or more people with a rate of 46% or more for each person;

d) Causing death.

5. People who prepare to commit this crime will be sentenced to imprisonment from 01 year to 05 years.

6. Offenders may also be subject to a fine from 10,000,000 VND to 100,000,000 VND, probation, a residence ban from 01 year to 05 years or confiscation of part or all of their property.