Pho restaurant owner arrested for allowing customers to gamble in her house
(Baonghean.vn) - After eating pho, Truong Van Son and Hoang Trong Xuan had the idea of gambling so they asked permission from the pho restaurant owner, Phan Thi Anh (residing in Tan Ky town) to go inside to gamble and Anh agreed.
On the afternoon of July 18, Tan Ky District People's Court tried the criminal case against Phan Thi Anh, Nguyen Hong Phi, Hoang Dinh Quyet, Truong Van Son, and Hoang Trong Xuan for the crime of"Gamble".
According to the indictment: at about 22:00 on April 4, 2019, Xuan and Son went to the pho restaurant of Phan Thi Anh (born 1977), in block 1, Tan Ky town (Tan Ky district) to have dinner.
After finishing eating, both of them had the idea of gambling so they asked Phan Thi Anh for permission to go inside the house to gamble and she agreed. After that, Anh went into the house, took a mat and spread it out in the middle of the bedroom and took out a deck of cards and put it on the mat. Xuan and Son sat down and agreed to gamble in the form of three cards, betting 20,000 VND per game.
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| The subjects at court. Photo: Phuong Hao |
At around 10:30 p.m. the same day, Phi and Quyet went to Phan Thi Anh's house to play. Seeing that there was gambling, they sat down to join in. At this time, all four agreed to increase the bet per game from 20,000 VND to 50,000 VND and then continued gambling.
During the gambling process, because he lost all his money, Son borrowed 500,000 VND from Phan Thi Anh to continue gambling.
At 1:15 a.m. on April 5, 2019, while the subjects were gambling, the Tan Ky District Police working group came in and caught them red-handed, seizing 450,000 VND from the gambling table.
Through investigation, it was proven that the total amount of money the subjects used for gambling purposes was 7.3 million VND.
Phan Thi Anh (the homeowner), although not directly participating in gambling and not collecting the pool fee, agreed to let the above subjects gamble at the location under her management, and at the same time lent Truong Van Son money to gamble, so Anh was an accomplice in the crime of gambling.
At the end of the trial, the panel sentenced Ms. Anh to 6 months of non-custodial reform, Son and Xuan each to 6 months of suspended imprisonment, and Quyet and Phi to a total of 33 months of non-custodial reform.
