Police of 3 provinces and cities 'cast net' to catch 'huge' gambling den disguised as business

At 7:00 p.m. on July 11, the Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Public Security coordinated with the Ho Chi Minh City, Tay Ninh and Binh Duong Police to suddenly raid 8 locations in the 3 above-mentioned provinces and cities, breaking up a gambling ring with a scale of hundreds of billions of dong disguised as a business or company led by Nguyen Van Binh (35 years old, from Bac Giang, residing in District 12, Ho Chi Minh City).

Evidence of the case.

At the locations, the police force arrested 9 subjects, including Nguyen Van Binh, and seized many gambling exhibits including more than 500 million VND, 900 USD, 3 cars, 6 computers, 24 bank cards and many other documents related to organizing gambling.

Initially, the police determined that the suspects involved in Binh's gambling ring all came from well-off families, lived in villas, used "super cars", and knew each other before; some were international students.

Binh's gang hid under the guise of companies and businesses to organize gambling and online football betting. Nguyen Van Do (residing in Thu Duc district) and Tran Quang Binh (residing in Binh Duong province) assisted Binh in running the line. Binh confessed to having run the gambling line since 2014.

Notably, Binh’s network does not require gamblers to deposit money into their accounts before allowing them to bet like other places, but Binh gives gamblers accounts with a certain amount of virtual money to bet. After each week, Binh has his juniors calculate the wins and losses to collect or contribute money to the gamblers.

Binh's network operates very sophisticatedly, mainly transacting in cash, so it is difficult to determine the exact amount of money gambled. However, based on verified documents, from 2014 to now, the total amount of money deposited into the accounts of gambling organizers is estimated at hundreds of billions of dong. In addition to organizing gambling, Binh also recruited many disciples who are key subjects to operate loan sharking and collect betting money.

Authorities are continuing to expand the investigation of the case, clarifying the roles of the subjects.