How does the gambling ring related to the former director of C50 operate?
Former Director of C50 Nguyen Thanh Hoa was accused of failing to stop the online gambling ring worth thousands of billions in time when it was discovered.
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Phan Sao Nam (left) and former director of C50 Nguyen Thanh Hoa. |
Investigating the "gambling, using the Internet to commit acts of appropriating property, organizing gambling, illegally buying and selling invoices and laundering money" ring that occurred in Phu Tho and several other provinces and cities, from the end of August 2017 to now, Phu Tho Provincial Police have prosecuted and arrested nearly 70 people. Among them are Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hoa (former Director of the Department of High-Tech Crime Prevention Police, Ministry of Public Security); Phan Sao Nam (39 years old, former Chairman of the Board of Directors, Director of VTC Online Media Joint Stock Company - VTC online); Nguyen Van Duong (43 years old, Chairman of the Board of Directors of High-Tech Security Development Investment Company Limited - CNC).
Authorities determined that the company run by Nam and Duong was engaged in business and imported technological equipment.However, after a while, it switched to organizing online gambling.
Mr. Nam and Duong were accused of being the masterminds and operating an online gambling ring through the form of card games.Players buy phone scratch cards and Vcards issued by CNC to load into the game to buy virtual money to gamble through card acceptance services from payment gateways of many companies. Revenue from this form is controlled by CNC company.
The second way is to use bank money to deposit into ATM account through online payment gateway to buy virtual money and game cards.
Authorities estimate the ring had more than 20 million accounts with 8 million regular players.When cracking the case, the investigation agency seized over 1,000 billion VND. There are no official figures yet, but the amount of foreign currency transferred abroad from gambling is estimated at about 3.6 million USD.
Former Director of C50 Nguyen Thanh Hoaaccused of being the head of the high-tech crime prevention police force, when discovering the wrongdoings of Nam and Duong, he did not stop them in time but also "protected them". Mr. Hoa was prosecuted for organizing gambling according to the penalty framework atClause 2, Article 249 of the 1999 Penal Code.
Mr. Hoa has been Director of Department C50 since 2009, after many years as a leader at the Department of Economic Crime Investigation Police.end of yearIn 2017, he was suspended from office and stripped of his title.People's Police on March 11.
Article 249: Crime of organizing gambling 1. Anyone who organizes gambling or gambling on a large scale or has been administratively sanctioned for the acts specified in this Article and Article 248 of this Code or has been convicted of one of these crimes and has not had his/her criminal record expunged but continues to commit the violation shall be subject to a fine of from ten million to three hundred million Dong or imprisonment from one to five years. 2. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from three to ten years: a) Professional in nature; b) Illegal profits are large, very large or especially large; c) Dangerous recidivism. 3. The offender may also be fined from five million to one hundred million Dong and have part or all of his/her property confiscated. |
