The owner of a pho restaurant was arrested for allowing customers to gamble inside her establishment.
(Baonghean.vn) - After finishing their pho meal, Truong Van Son and Hoang Trong Xuan decided to gamble, so they asked the owner of the pho restaurant, Phan Thi Anh (residing in Tan Ky town), for permission to go inside the house to gamble, and Anh agreed.
On the afternoon of July 18th, the Tan Ky District People's Court heard 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 approximately 10:00 PM on April 4, 2019, Xuan and Son went to Phan Thi Anh's (born in 1977) pho restaurant in Block 1, Tan Ky town (Tan Ky district) for dinner.
After finishing their meal, the two decided to gamble and asked Phan Thi Anh for permission to go inside the house to gamble, which she agreed to. Then, Anh went inside, took out a mat, spread it in the middle of the bedroom, and placed a deck of playing cards on the mat. Xuan and Son sat down and agreed to gamble using the "three cards" game, betting 20,000 dong per round.
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| The defendants in court. Photo: Phuong Hao |
At around 10:30 PM that same day, Phi and Quyết arrived at Phan Thị Anh's house to play. Seeing that gambling was taking place, they sat down to join in. At this point, all four agreed to increase the bet per round from 20,000 VND to 50,000 VND and continued gambling.
Having lost all his money gambling, Son borrowed 500,000 VND from Phan Thi Anh to continue gambling.
At 1:15 AM on April 5, 2019, while the individuals were gambling, a task force from the Tan Ky District Police raided the premises and caught them red-handed. They seized 450,000 VND from the gambling table.
Investigations have revealed that the total amount of money the suspects used for gambling was 7.3 million VND.
As for Phan Thi Anh (the homeowner), although she did not directly participate in gambling and did not collect any fees, she agreed to allow the aforementioned individuals to gamble at the location under her management, and also lent money to Truong Van Son for gambling. Therefore, Anh is considered an accomplice in the crime of gambling.
At the end of the trial, the panel of judges sentenced Ms. Anh to 6 months of non-custodial correctional training, Son and Xuan each to 6 months of suspended imprisonment, and Quyet and Phi to a total of 33 months of non-custodial correctional training.
