50-year-old woman leads high-tech gambling ring

On April 7, 2022, Dien Chau District Police (Nghe An) said that the unit had just chaired and coordinated withDepartment of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime PreventionProvincial police broke up a case and destroyed a high-tech gambling ring led by Dao Thi Huong (born in 1972), residing in Dien Thanh commune, Dien Chau district.

Evidence seized in the case. Photo: Hong Ngoc

Accordingly, recently, gambling has emerged in Dien Chau district, causing public outrage and affecting security and order in the area. Through professional measures, the district police have identified the suspects. In early March 2022, the unit's leaders decided to establish a special project to combat it.

After a period of investigation and verification, with the collected documents and evidence, at 7:00 p.m. on April 3, 2022, Dien Chau District Police presided over and coordinated with the Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention and Control to decidesolve the caseAccordingly, the Special Investigation Committee mobilized 60 officers and soldiers, deployed 10 working groups to simultaneously search the residences of the subjects; at the same time, arrested Dao Thi Huong and 10 subjects in the network.

The subjects and evidence at the police station. Photo: Hong Ngoc

The subjects all reside in Dien Chau district, including: Vo Hong Chinh (born in 1989), residing in Dien Cat commune; Pham Thi Hien (born in 1979), residing in Dien Chau town; Dau Thi Luan (born in 1986) and Nguyen Van Phuc (born in 1997), both residing in Dien Ngoc commune; Pham Van Ngoc ((born in 1982), Ngo Van Khai (born in 1988), Tran Van Bon (born in 1975), Nguyen Thi The (born in 1972), Nguyen Van Thang ((born in 1991) and Nguyen Van Tung (born in 1976), all residing in Dien Thanh commune. At the scene, the police seized 15 mobile phones, 100 million VND in cash, 05 bank cards and many other documents related to gambling activities.

Dien Chau district police took the statement of suspect Vo Hong Chinh. Photo: Hong Ngoc

At the Investigation Police Agency of Dien Chau District Police, the subjects confessed: Dao Thi Huong organized a line for gamblers to participate in gambling from the beginning of 2022 until now in the form of recording lottery numbers. This line includes 03 levels of agents, operating in an organized and professional manner.

Every day, the agents receive gambling messages from players, then summarize and transfer the information via text messages and social networks such as Zalo, Viber, and Facebook to Huong. After the Northern lottery results are available, Huong will calculate the winnings and losses for the agents and notify them via text messages. At the same time, the subject also deletes all messages to destroy documents and evidence. The winnings and losses will be paid the next morning by bank transfer.

Dao Thi Huong - the leader of a high-tech gambling ring. Photo: Hong Ngoc

With the above methods and tricks, up to the time this line was dismantled, the transaction amount used for gambling by the subjects was more than 90 billion VND, with the amount of money gambled each day from 800 million VND to 1 billion VND. On April 3, 2022 alone, the subjects used more than 1.3 billion VND for gambling.

According to Dien Chau District Police, most of the 11 subjects in the above-mentioned ring have criminal records related to gambling, of which the ringleader Dao Thi Huong has 2 criminal records.

Currently, the case is still under further investigation.