Breaking up the 1,200 billion football betting ring of gangster Hieu 'de'
Police determined that in nearly 2 years of operation, the football betting ring led by Hieu "de" had a transaction amount of about 1,200 billion VND.
On January 21, the Criminal Police Department, Ministry of Public Security, announced that it had just dismantled a "huge" scale football betting ring through the agbong88 website in Dong Nai province and southern provinces and cities.
Currently, the Criminal Police Department has prosecuted 16 subjects for the crimes of "Organizing gambling" and "Gambling".
The investigation agency determined that the leader of this betting ring is Hieu "de", real name Tran Trung Hieu (35 years old, residing in Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai) who had a previous conviction for "Intentionally causing injury".
Accordingly, after a long time of establishing a special project to investigate and prosecute, the Criminal Police Department coordinated with Dong Nai Provincial Police, Special Police Group No. 2 under the Mobile Police Command and the Police of several provinces and cities to simultaneously raid and search locations in Dong Nai.
Police seized evidence including more than 1.1 billion VND, 20 mobile phones, 1 laptop, 1 CPU and a number of other related objects and documents.
The investigation agency clarified that from the end of 2023, Hieu "cricket" registered and created a super general agent account (Super Master) NC84 on the agbong88 betting website of the international bookmaker IBET. Then, Hieu divided it into many subordinate accounts and gave them to subordinates to organize gambling in Dong Nai and several other provinces and cities.
From the end of 2023 until now, the total amount of money used by the subjects for betting is about 1,200 billion VND.
Hieu "de"'s betting line gathered many prominent people with many criminal records in the localities; which according to the investigation team was a professional, complex operation with sophisticated methods and tricks.
The Criminal Police Department is expanding the investigation, calling on related subjects to surrender soon, to enjoy leniency under the law.
