Dozens of police counted 500 billion VND of Phan Sao Nam
Two police teams worked through the night, eating and drinking on the spot to count hundreds of billions of dong from the mastermind of the online gambling ring.
According to the Phu Tho provincial prosecution agency, in the first phase of the trillion-dong online gambling case, the investigation agency determined that Nguyen Van Duong (Chairman of the Board of Directors of the High-Tech Security Development Investment Company - CNC) and Phan Sao Nam (39 years old, former Chairman of the Board of Directors, Director of VTC Online Joint Stock Company) were the masterminds, operating 25 agents nationwide with a total transaction amount of nearly 10,000 billion VND.
To date, the investigation agency has seized about 1,300 billion VND including money and assets such as 20 apartments, 13 cars...
"Phan Sao Nam confessed honestly and admitted his guilt. Nam declared that he had about 200 billion VND in cash in two boxes in Quang Ninh and more than 300 billion VND (gold, USD, cash) in Ho Chi Minh City," a responsible source said.
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Phan Sao Nam when he was working at VTC online. Photo:VTC. |
Approaching the money in Quang Ninh, "many officers and soldiers ate bread, stood guard, and witnessed the counting," this source shared.
In Ho Chi Minh City, 6 police investigators and dozens of riot police were on duty to count the hundreds of billions of assets that Phan Sao Nam intended to convert into real estate. After counting the money by machine, the investigators had to count it again by hand, the work took place from the previous afternoon until 4:30 the next morning and transported it to Hanoi that same night. At Noi Bai airport (Hanoi), the authorities used 4 cars to transport the money to the place where the evidence was managed.
Defendant Nguyen Van Duong confessed to receiving 800 billion VND, but so far the investigation agency has only seized more than 100 billion VND from the savings book in the safe.Duong has not voluntarily paid any amount.
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How to deal with the proceeds?
The amount of 500 billion collected from Phan Sao Nam is being temporarily kept at the State Treasury of Phu Tho province and will be handled according to the announced verdict.
Regarding the amount of 3.5 million USD (equivalent to 70 billion VND) that Phan Sao Nam deposited in Singapore, a responsible source in Phu Tho said "it will definitely be recovered".
The condition for recovering money from Singapore is that the account holder signs a withdrawal confirmation. "Singapore is cooperating very well with us on crime prevention issues, so the recovery is just a matter of time," the source said.
Overview of the nearly 10,000 billion gambling ring that was just discovered.
In May 2017, from a complaint from a woman who was scammed and had 55 million VND in phone cards stolen online, Phu Tho Provincial Police investigated and discovered an online gambling ring worth thousands of billions of VND. Two months later, the Investigation Security Agency, Phu Tho Provincial Police initiated a case of "using the internet to appropriate property, organize gambling, illegally buy and sell invoices and launder money". The police successively prosecuted and arrested 88 people, of which Phan Sao Nam and Nguyen Van Duong were identified as the ringleaders. Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hoa, former Director of the High-Tech Crime Investigation Police Department (C50) and Mr. Phan Van Vinh, former Director General of the Police Department, were accused of assisting the operation of the ring. Investigators accused Nam and Duong of illegally profiting 2,800 billion VND from this line. |
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