Busting a 400 billion VND football betting ring
A 400 billion VND football betting ring has just been busted by Kien Giang police.
On March 9, the Criminal Police Department of Kien Giang Province Police announced that it had just dismantled a 400 billion VND betting ring.
The Investigation Police Agency has prosecuted Nguyen Dang Khoa (51 years old, residing in Rach Gia City) and his accomplices to investigate the act of "Organizing gambling". Defendant Khoa is the leader of this gambling ring.
According to initial investigation, Kien Giang Provincial Police discovered a subject in Rach Gia City taking advantage of cyberspace to organize gambling in the form of football betting.
This group of subjects has been organizing gambling for a long time, on a large scale, in a complex manner, with many measures to deal with the police...
Kien Giang Provincial Police have established a special project to eliminate this large-scale gambling ring.
Through professional measures, the police determined that suspect Khoa regularly accessed the football betting site and that he managed a Super master account with 700,000 UT; equivalent to 8.4 billion VND. Meanwhile, Khoa's subordinate system was divided into 7 master accounts, 32 agents and 131 members.
At around 9am on February 23, Kien Giang Provincial Police coordinated with professional units to divide into many teams to arrest Khoa. During the search, the police seized 16 mobile phones and more than 300 million VND.
Police said that from February until now, the system has recorded more than 1,000 visits to Khoa's website to bet on football, with betting points equivalent to 1.5 billion VND.
The subjects said they have been gambling since August 2024, with transaction amounts of about 400 billion VND.
