Nghe An: Busting a lottery ring with transaction amount of 4 billion VND/day

The subjects are being held in criminal detention. Photo: Quynh Trang

Previously, through the work of grasping the situation, from mid-March 2021, Quynh Luu District Police discovered 3 subjects leading the ring.gambleIllegal betting in the form of recording lottery numbers via Zalo and Facebook applications includes: Ho Trong Dung, born in 1982, the leader, and two subjects Ho Van Tu, born in 1973; Pham Dinh Luong, born in 1971, both residing in Hamlet 4, Quynh Luong Commune, Quynh Luu District.

To deceive the authorities, the ring leaders were extremely vigilant, hired guards, locked the doors, frequently changed their communication methods and only accepted batch numbers and numbers from agents, not accepting individual sales. Faced with the above situation, Quynh Luu District Police coordinated with professional units to establish a special project to fight and eradicate the ring.

At around 7:00 p.m. on April 5, 2021, Quynh Luu District Police successfully broke up the case and arrested the three suspects. The seized items included VND 78.6 million in cash, 8 mobile phones and other related items.

Confiscated exhibits. Photo: Quynh Trang

Through the investigation, the police initially proved that the amount of money the subjects gambled on April 5, 2021 was more than 3.9 billion VND.

Currently, the District Police have detained the above 3 suspects and continue to investigate and expand the case./.