Dozens of subjects arrested for controlling a 20 trillion VND online gambling ring
Police have dismantled an inter-provincial online gambling ring with a total amount of over 20,000 billion VND.
This is a large-scale inter-provincial gambling ring, incorporating sophisticated tricks of high-tech crime.
According to the investigation records, this gambling group has established 5 large agents of 5 different card game sites, with servers located abroad. Each card game has more than 20 level 1 agents, each level 1 agent has dozens of level 2 agents nationwide.
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Seized evidence. |
Agents publicly disclose hotline phone numbers, Facebook pages, Zalo, and game accounts for players to contact, transact, and buy and sell game points.
Game sites organize for players to participate in gambling in many forms such as: Sicbo, xoc dia lottery, tien len mien nam, poker, fish shooting, etc.
The police investigation agency determined that the above gambling card games have been operating since 2018, and to date there have been millions of gambler accounts registered to participate.
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Several leaders of the gambling ring were arrested. |
The investigation agency initially determined that the total transaction amount of the subjects in this line was up to over 20,000 billion VND.
The Criminal Police force arrested 20 key suspects. Among them were the ringleaders: Le Tuan Vinh, born in 1988 and his wife Tran Thi Ngan, born in 1990, residing in Khoai Chau Town, Khoai Chau District; Hoang Van Tan, born in 1988 and his younger brother Hoang Van Nham, born in 1992, residing in Hung An Commune, Kim Dong District, both in Hung Yen Province.
The remaining 16 subjects are permanent residents in Hanoi, Hai Duong, Quang Ninh, Nghe An, Bac Giang...
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Hung Yen Provincial Police are fighting to expand the case. |
The investigation team seized 38 mobile phones, 7 computers of various types, nearly 2 billion VND in cash, many SIM cards, Internet connection devices and related evidence to serve the online gambling ring.
Hung Yen Provincial Police have also frozen more than 100 related bank accounts for further investigation.