Nghe An police dismantled a transnational gambling and money laundering ring worth over 500 billion VND.
Nghe An Police Department of Criminal Police has initiated a case, prosecuted a group of 12 subjects in the money laundering and gambling ring, and at the same time, continued to investigate and expand the transnational "Money Laundering" and "Gambling" project with an amount of more than 500 billion VND.
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Previously, through the work of grasping the situation, the Department of Cyber Security and Prevention of High-Tech Crime and the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Police discovered that in Nghe An province there was a group of subjects regularly participating in gambling on the website "xxx88". This is an online gambling website with a domain name registered abroad, led by a group of foreigners.
In Vietnam, the subjects increased advertising activities of this website as an online electronic game platform, with diverse betting, easy registration and quick liquidity, thus attracting many Vietnamese people to participate in online gambling. Through monitoring, the website system was blocked many times, but then the subjects changed the domain name to continue organizing gambling activities.
During the investigation of the above gambling ring, the police force identified a group using many sophisticated tricks to deal with the tracing of the authorities in order to carry out the act of "money laundering" with a huge amount of money from gambling transactions on the website "xxx88". Notably, the activities of this group have connections between domestic and foreign subjects, divided into small groups, operating in an organized, sophisticated, dangerous manner, using many high-tech applications and techniques.
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The police agency initially clarified that from September 2024 until now, the amount of money gamblers transacted to gamble on the website "xxx88" has reached more than 600 billion VND/month. Also from the website "xxx88", the subjects have carried out "money laundering" activities of more than 500 billion VND for the bookmaker "xxx88".
Determining the nature and severity of the acts committed by this group of subjects, the leaders of Nghe An Provincial Police directed the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention and Control and the Criminal Police Department to jointly preside over the establishment of a project to fight and eradicate the above-mentioned criminal ring.
After a period of monitoring and synchronous application of professional measures, from April 11 to 13, 2025, the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention and Control and the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Province co-chaired and coordinated with relevant units to arrange 12 working groups in Yen Thanh, Dien Chau, Nghia Dan and Quynh Luu districts to simultaneously arrest 12 subjects in the above gang for the acts of "Money Laundering" and "Gambling". The discovered and seized exhibits included 3 sets of computers, 15 mobile phones, 1 car and many related documents and objects.
In Vietnam, the leader of the above “Money Laundering” and “Gambling” ring is Dau Trong Giap (born 1992), residing in Minh Thanh commune, Yen Thanh district. In addition to Giap, Nghe An police also arrested 11 other subjects including 8 men and 3 women aged 22-45, residing in Yen Thanh, Dien Chau, Nghia Dan, Quynh Luu districts, directly participating in the money laundering and gambling ring on the website “xxx88”.
At the police station, the suspects admitted their crimes. The case is currently being processed according to the law.
