The unusual hobby of the boss of the 14 trillion VND gambling ring
Even though he is the boss of a gambling ring and has thousands of billions of dong in his hands, Pham Cong Anh doesn't like to drive luxury cars, he only buys them to "show off", and takes a taxi wherever he goes.
On November 8, Gia Lam District Police, Hanoi, temporarily detained 14 suspects in a 14,000 billion VND gambling ring that had just been dismantled by the District Police in coordination with the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention (Ministry of Public Security).
Previously, on November 4, nearly 200 officers and soldiers simultaneously worked, summoned and arrested 23 subjects, seized 4 luxury cars, many computers, bank cards and objects, documents related to gambling activities and gambling organization. During the investigation, the leader of the linegambleThis is Pham Cong Anh, born in 1979, in Lang Son province.
Pham Cong Anh only finished grade 5/12, and had a previous sentence of 4 years in prison for "Intentionally causing injury".
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Although he only finished 5th grade, Pham Cong Anh is quite intelligent and has a lot of knowledge about information technology. He learned the gambling tricks himself on the internet and then set up and directed the operation of this huge gambling network.
The "boss" also has quite a strange hobby. Although he has a lot of money and many luxury cars, Cong Anh often takes taxis. The two luxury Mercedes cars that are evidence of the case are owned by his juniors Hoang Manh Lam and Dinh Van Hoang. When he goes out, he takes taxis, but when he returns home, Cong Anh lives a lavish life, hiring two private chefs to serve him meals.
Through the investigation, the subjects initially confessed to organizing gambling and gambling on the website http://bxx as follows: The website Bxx provides online game services with gambling rewards including many games such as: Southern Tien Len, Pocker, slot games, Sic Bo, Xoc Dia, Fish Shooting...
To participate in playing online games to win prizes, players register an account at the website https://bxx or the website https://tai.bxx to download the application.
After registering an account, players register a phone number to receive a secure OTP code to be able to transfer virtual money (coins) to a bank account, then buy virtual money (coins) through recharging telecommunications scratch cards at telecommunications networks (Vinaphone, Mobifone, Viettel) or contact the agents on the list to transfer money through a bank account or e-wallet.
When the dealer receives money from the player via bank account, it will transfer the corresponding amount of coins to the player's account.
The gambling organization and gambling through the online game Bxx was led by the group of subjects Pham Cong Anh (born in 1979), Hoang Manh Lam (born in 1987), Dinh Van Hoang (born in 1985), residing in Lang Son City, Lang Son Province, directly commanding 42 subordinate agents. From July 2020 to now, the estimated amount of money gambled through this system is up to nearly 14 trillion VND.
This is a line that organizes gambling and online gambling in the form of online games for rewards on an especially large scale, with subjects operating inter-provincially in many localities nationwide.
Many subjects in the gambling organization are "big" elements, and their financial businesses show signs of usury, seriously affecting security and order.
