Prosecution and temporary detention of a series of subjects of a 20 trillion VND gambling ring

On May 19, the Criminal Police Department, Ministry of Public Security, announced that the unit had issued a decision to prosecute and temporarily detain 17 subjects for organizing gambling and gambling, including: Nguyen Thi Huong Ly, residing in My Dinh I ward, Nam Tu Liem district, Hanoi; Nguyen Duc Manh, residing in Cu Khe commune, Thanh Oai district (Hanoi); Nguyen Thanh Luong, residing in Mai Dich ward, Cau Giay district; Nguyen Khac Du, Dang Tien Dat, Pham Tien Duong, Nguyen Minh Chien, all residing in Chuong My district (Hanoi); Nguyen Gia Long, Mai Lan Phuong, Nguyen Van Chinh, Pham Ngoc Tuan, all residing in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City; Thieu Van Tu, residing in Dan Phuong district (Hanoi); Cao Xuan Nguyen, residing in Phu Xuyen district (Hanoi); Nguyen Van Ha, residing in Thach That district (Hanoi); Pham Van Giang, residing in Nam Tu Liem district and Nguyen Tan Hieu, residing in Thanh Khe district, Da Nang city.

Previously, the high-tech crime investigation department, Criminal Police Department, discovered a group of subjects who regularly organized gambling and gambling using various forms of betting on the Internet on a large scale, with many subjects participating in many provinces and cities, the amount of money used for betting through transactions in the subjects' personal accounts at banks amounted to billions of dong... The leaders of this line were Nguyen Thi Huong Ly and Nguyen Duc Manh.

During the search, the police seized: 220 million VND, 2 luxury cars, 36 mobile phones; 6 computers, many ATM cards of banks and other documents related to the acts of organizing gambling and gambling. At the same time, many bank accounts used by the subjects to organize gambling via the internet were frozen.

At the police station, Nguyen Thi Huong Ly confessed that, seeing the profit of a "huge" amount of money from gamblers, Ly registered an agent account under the name Mrs. Huong Ly (later changed to Mrs. Vymit) on the game site to buy and sell game points with online bettors. At the beginning of her operation, Huong Ly directly used her personal accounts at banks to trade in game points with gamblers. Later, Huong Ly used accounts under the names of Hoang Ngoc Ly, Hoang Viet Hung, Pham Ngoc Tuan... to open accounts at banks to transfer and receive money to buy and sell game points with gamblers. At the same time, she assigned Ngoc Ly, Tuan... to manage and use the agent's hotline phone number to trade in game points.

In April 2020, Huong Ly and Luong from Hanoi went to Ho Chi Minh City to rent a place for Tuan, Long, Phuong, and Chinh to buy and sell game points on Huong Ly's agent account. In addition, Du was hired by Manh to manage the Duc Manh agent hotline number and manage the agent account to transfer points to gamblers. Duc Manh agent used accounts under the names of Nguyen Duc Manh, Nguyen Van An, and Nguyen Khac Du at banks to transfer and receive money to buy and sell game points with gamblers. Also working with Du for Duc Manh agent were Duong, Dat, and Chien.

The subjects Tu, Nguyen, Hieu, Ha and Giang created member accounts on the game to bet on over/under and used personal accounts at banks to transfer and receive money to buy and sell game points with accounts representing Dai Ly Duc Manh and Dai Ly Huong Ly. Each time accessing the account, the subjects used 5 million VND or more to gamble... The total amount of money transacted through bank accounts between gamblers and the game from January 2019 to present is about 20 trillion VND./.