Former police chief Phan Van Vinh was prosecuted for up to 10 years in prison.

On August 31, the People's Procuracy of Phu Tho province completed the indictment (235 pages) prosecuting Mr. Phan Van Vinh (former Director General of the General Department of Police), Nguyen Thanh Hoa (former Director of the Department of High-Tech Crime Prevention Police - C50, Ministry of Public Security) and 90 defendants on six charges.

Mr. Vinh and Hoa were prosecuted for the crime.Taking advantage of position and power while performing official duties,according to Clause 2, Article 356, Penal Code 2015 with a penalty of five to 10 years in prison.

According to the prosecution, on September 30, 2011, Nguyen Van Duong established the High-Tech Security Development Investment Company Limited (CNC). On October 10, 2011, Duong and Mr. Hoa signed a memorandum of understanding on business cooperation in which CNC received 80% of the profits, C50 received 20%. However, C50 did not contribute capital nor did it send any staff to participate in this company, but left it to Duong to decide for himself.

On May 3, 2012, Duong sent a written report to Mr. Vinh and Hoa about the current status of online gambling activities in Vietnam, requesting the leaders of the General Department of Police and C50 to "create favorable conditions to support CNC in working with partners in building and organizing the release of gambling games on the Internet, creating revenue to carry out assigned tasks". In May 2015, Mr. Hoa directed the staff department to draft a decision to establish a front company, CNC, and had it signed and approved by Mr. Vinh.

In early 2016, Mr. Hoa discussed with Mr. Vinh the idea of ​​building a national defense system against cybercrime and assigned CNC to implement it. However, to be able to implement it, CNC needs to focus on building a social network system and an online payment gateway to collect information, grasp the crime situation and have a source of revenue to fund the construction of the defense system.

With the above spirit, Duong continued to propose that CNC implement a plan to build a model of an online game portal, piloting the conversion of a portion of virtual accounts to CNC's virtual cards and e-wallets. Then Mr. Vinh wrote: "Respectfully forward to the Director and C50 for research and proposal".

At this time, Duong signed a contract with Phan Sao Nam's VTC Online Company to operate online gaming. Mr. Vinh knew that these two companies were linked to operate the Rik.Vip card game in a disguised form of gambling, but did not report to the leaders or direct the functional units to verify and handle the matter.

Meanwhile, when his subordinates proposed to assign Department 2 to verify that CNC had signs of organizing gambling in the form of the Rik.Vip card game, Mr. Hoa did not agree. He said that CNC did not violate the law and would report to the General Department and the Ministry so that CNC could operate as a pilot to serve professional work. Department 2 continued to discover that CNC had changed from Rik.Vip to Tipclub, and reported to Mr. Hoa, but was "instructed" not to verify.

According to the prosecution, CNC organized online gambling and illegally profited thousands of billions of dong, but none of the money from this gambling activity was invested in the national defense system against cybercrime, only a very small amount. Specifically, CNC transferred to C50 700 million dong and a set of anti-virus software.

According to the prosecution, Mr. Vinh knew that CNC company was organizing gambling, but did not prevent or handle it, but instead signed a document requesting the Ministry of Information and Communications to facilitate the above violations. He directed Mr. Hoa to sign a report proposing the Minister of Public Security to allow CNC to continue organizing gambling and signed a note of approval on the legal document dated October 12, 2011, to "conceal the capital contribution with professional advantages". When the leaders of the Ministry of Public Security discovered that CNC was operating a disguised gambling game, they requested a report, but Mr. Vinh did not comply.

Mr. Vinh's "ignorance" of CNC's operation of a disguised gambling game was given a Rolex watch by Duong. Although Mr. Vinh claimed that this was an item he had asked for and had paid 1.1 billion VND, the People's Procuracy said there was no basis. Because Mr. Vinh's salary is about 20 million VND a month, to buy this luxury item, he would have to spend 5 years of income without spending.

The prosecution said that Mr. Vinh's actions caused particularly serious consequences and affected the industry's reputation. Mr. Hoa was accused of covering up and not allowing the functional departments to verify and handle CNC.

92 people in the case were prosecuted for crimesGambling organization,Gamble,Using the Internet to commit property appropriation,Illegal trading of invoices, Money laundering, Abuse of power and position while performing official duties.In which, the two masterminds include Nguyen Van Duong and Phan Sao Nam for two crimes.Gambling and Money Laundering.