Gambling group in abandoned shack in Nghe An receives sentence

On the afternoon of April 26, Tan Ky District People's Court tried the criminal case against Vo Van Minh, Tang Van Bay, Nguyen Van Hung, Vo Van Tuan, and Vo Van Hiep, all residing in Nghia Binh Commune (Tan Ky), for gambling.

According to the indictment, at 11:00 a.m. on February 23, 2019, Minh, Hiep and Tuan met at an abandoned thatched hut located next to the Ho Chi Minh trail in Hamlet 9, Nghia Binh Commune. The three of them invited each other to gamble, Hiep went to buy a deck of cards and then returned to the hut. Minh said"I play Lieng with fifty cards"then Hiep and Tuan agreed.

After agreeing on the method of assessmentThe three of them began to sit and gamble with each other on the stone table and chairs in the thatched hut.

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At about 12 o'clock on the same day, Hung and Bay went to the shack and said "let's play" and then immediately sat down to gamble. At 1:15 p.m. on the same day, while the defendants were gambling, they were discovered and caught red-handed by the Tan Ky District Police working group, who confiscated 1,850,000 VND and a deck of cards from the table. The investigation proved that the amount of money the defendants used for gambling was 5,270,000 VND.

Previously, Minh had been to prison for theft; Hung and Tuan had been administratively fined for gambling and had not had their criminal records cleared.

At the end of the trial, the panel sentenced Hiep to 6 months of suspended imprisonment, and the remaining defendants received a total sentence of 42 months of non-custodial reform.