Arrested 2 former leaders of Lottery Company

The former director and deputy director of Ha Giang Province Lottery Company were initially accused of colluding with many lottery agents to legitimize lottery winning results and withdraw large amounts of state money to share among themselves.

Police read the arrest warrant and searched the residence of the former director of Ha Giang Lottery Company - Photo: CTV

On October 25, the Investigation Police Agency (PC46) of Ha Giang Provincial Police announced that it had just issued an order to temporarily detain and search the residence of Mr. Bui Hoai Can (52 years old, former director of Ha Giang Lottery Company) and Mr. Nguyen Quang Hung (44 years old, former deputy director) to investigate the crime of abusing position and power while performing official duties.

Initial investigation and verification results by the police determined that from 2013 to 2015, Mr. Can and Mr. Hung directed a number of company officials to collude with many lottery agents to legalize lottery winning results, withdrawing state money to share among themselves in large amounts.

According to regulations, lottery agents must submit the list and ticket stubs to the company before the Northern lottery results are drawn. However, the two defendants Can and Hung allowed many agents to change the list and submit the ticket stubs after the lottery results were drawn. At the same time, a group of lottery company officials would change the winning numbers on the company's main computer.

For lottery agents in districts far from the center, Mr. Can and his subordinates instructed the agent owner to adjust the time on the computer backwards, enter the winning numbers into the list and then transmit the data to the company's server after the Northern lottery results were available.

In the same case, the police had previously issued arrest warrants for Hoang Nhu Nguyet, former chief accountant of the Lottery Company, and two officers and employees of the company, Pham Trung Dung and Dinh Xuan Thang, to investigate the same crime of abusing their position and power while performing official duties.

According to tuoitre