The reason why former Director General of Police Phan Van Vinh was arrested
Initial investigation results determined that Mr. Phan Van Vinh's violations occurred when he was the General Director of the General Department of Police.
 |
Phu Tho Provincial Police determined that Mr. Phan Van Vinh, former Director General of the General Department of Police, had abused his position and power, showing signs of "giving the green light" for a transnational gambling ring worth thousands of billions to operate. Mr. Vinh was arrested and transferred to the Phu Tho Provincial Police Detention Center.
Violations while in office as General Director
According to information from the Ministry of Public Security, the prosecution and arrest of Mr. Phan Van Vinh is part of the process of expanding the investigation into the case of using the Internet to commit acts of property appropriation, organizing gambling, gambling, illegal trading of invoices and money laundering occurring in Phu Tho and a number of provinces and cities.
Based on the results of the investigation, there is sufficient basis to determine Mr. Vinh's violations.
The decisions to prosecute and the temporary detention orders were approved by the People's Procuracy of Phu Tho province. Before being prosecuted, Mr. Vinh held the rank of Lieutenant General.
According to the source, the initial investigation results determined that Mr. Vinh's violations occurred when he was the General Director of the General Department of Police.
This man has issued policies contrary to the law to facilitate gambling through the games Rikvip and Tip.club.
 |
| A meal of people involved in the transnational gambling ring. From left to right: Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hoa (former director of the High-Tech Crime Prevention Police Department), Mr. Phan Van Vinh (former director general of the General Department of Police) and Mr. Nguyen Van Duong (former chairman of the Board of Directors of CNC High-Tech Security Development Investment Company Limited, the accused leader of the gambling ring). Photo: DV |
Mr. Vinh signed and submitted a number of documents to CNC High-Tech Security Development Investment Company Limited, chaired by Nguyen Van Duong (the leader of the gambling ring), to operate under the name of a professional unit of the Ministry of Public Security.
Along with Mr. Vinh, while the gambling ring was being formed and spreading its "octopus tentacles" to dozens of provinces and cities with thousands of large and small agents, Mr. Vinh's subordinate, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hoa, had acts of assisting this ring to operate for a long time.
At the CNC Company headquarters on Ho Giam Street, where the gambling server is located, when the police searched, they also discovered an office with the nameplate of Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hoa inside. Therefore, Mr. Hoa was prosecuted by the Phu Tho Provincial Police Department for organizing gambling.
Regarding the information that Mr. Vinh received profits from the gambling ring and had a motive for personal gain when taking advantage of his position and power, the source said that this is also an investigation direction of the prosecution agency.
Currently, the police are continuing to investigate and exploit the defendants who have been prosecuted to clarify this information.
The Ministry of Public Security also informed that the Phu Tho Provincial Police Security Investigation Agency is expanding the investigation into the case, clarifying the responsibilities of related subjects, and strictly handling them according to the provisions of the law.
84 defendants have been prosecuted
Regarding this case, up to now, Phu Tho police have prosecuted 84 defendants, detained more than 30 defendants, banned more than 40 defendants from leaving their place of residence, granted bail to 2 defendants, and searched for a number of defendants who have escaped.
 |
| Police forces were present at the entrance to Mr. Phan Van Vinh's house on Han Thuyen Street, Nam Dinh City when searching the house on the evening of April 6. Photo: Nam Tran |
Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hoa was prosecuted and temporarily detained to investigate the crime of "organizing gambling" as prescribed in Clause 2, Article 249 of the 1999 Penal Code.
Although he is the Director of the High-Tech Crime Prevention Police Department, when he discovered the violations, Mr. Hoa did not prevent or handle them but also assisted and "protected" this gambling ring.
Therefore, the large-scale gambling ring operated for a long time before being discovered and "taken down".
In just a short time, this gambling ring has "extended its tentacles" to many provinces and cities across the country. The network of "henchmen" has grown to thousands with 25 level 1 agents and 5,852 level 2 agents nationwide for gamblers to deposit and withdraw money to gamble.
The investigation process has so far determined that this gambling ring was organized by Phan Sao Nam (born in 1979, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director of VTC Online Media Joint Stock Company - VTC Online), Nguyen Van Duong (born in 1975, Chairman of the Board of Directors of High-Tech Security Development Investment Company - CNC) and Hoang Thanh Trung (born in 1978, Deputy Director of Nam Viet Investment Development Service Company Limited).
In which, Phan Sao Nam and Nguyen Van Duong played the role of mastermind and leader; Hoang Thanh Trung played the role of execution.
The investigation agency has clarified that Phan Sao Nam is the person who provided software and copyright for the electronic game portal to Nguyen Van Duong. The defendant Duong has the role of operating two electronic game portals named Rikvip and Tip.club.
According to the investigation results, from April 18, 2015 to August 29, 2017, there were 43 million real player accounts on the Rikvip and Tip.club systems (on average, 1 gambler has 3 accounts, the total equivalent to over 14 million gamblers).
Initial investigation determined that the total amount of gambling money deposited through payment gateways was VND9,583 billion (VND342 billion/month), of which money from telecommunication cards and game cards was VND9,296 billion, accounting for 97%; money from banks was VND168 billion, accounting for 1.75%.
Money used for gambling through agents is transacted directly in cash or by bank transfer, initially determined to be about 5,631 billion VND.
The investigation agency also determined that the group of defendants Nguyen Van Duong illegally benefited from this gambling ring of about 1,600 billion VND; the group of Phan Sao Nam and Hoang Thanh Trung received about 1,850 billion VND and 2,645 billion VND in rewards for gamblers.
After taking possession, the gambling organizers used many different tricks to legalize the money, such as investing in projects, contributing capital to businesses, buying real estate, depositing savings, converting into gold, foreign currency, transferring abroad (Phan Sao Nam deposited 3.5 million USD at the Bank of Singapore)...
The police have seized 1,238 billion VND (including 1,046 billion VND in cash, 20 apartments worth 192 billion VND) and 12 cars.