Breaking up a football betting ring worth over 1,000 billion VND
A gambling ring in the form of football betting over the Internet with a transaction amount of more than 1,000 billion VND has just been dismantled by the authorities.
Initial information from Thanh Hoa Provincial Police Department, when the European Cup C1 and AFF Suzuki Cup football matches started, Dam Quang Diep (born in 1993, residing in Yen Truong commune, Yen Dinh district, Thanh Hoa) bought and divided the accounts.football betting,then resell to other entities to enjoy the difference.
In addition, Diep also directly managed "gamblers" to gamble in the form of football betting on Diep's own account.
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Subject Diep at the police station. |
To avoid detection by authorities, every time he made gambling transactions, Diep used social networks Zalo, Facebook... to organize gambling on mobile phones and pay winnings and losses in betting using bank accounts via Internet banking services.
From the beginning of the European Cup C1 season until his arrest, Dam Quang Diep had organized dozens of people to gamble in the form of football betting with a total transaction amount of more than 1,000 billion VND.
Up to this point, Thanh Hoa Provincial Police have detained 8 main suspects in this gambling ring.
The case is currently under further investigation.