Dismantling a 150 billion VND betting ring during EURO season, discovering 3 other betting rings
The police agency has successfully dismantled an online football betting ring for EURO 2024, with a transaction amount of 150 billion VND in football betting of the subjects in the online football betting ring.
The Criminal Police Department, Nam Dinh Provincial Police, in coordination with the Technical Department, Ministry of Public Security, successfully dismantled an online football betting ring occurring in Nam Dinh province.
Through investigation and verification of the subjects in this network, the Police Agency also discovered and dismantled 3 more networks organizing gambling and gambling in the form of football betting via the internet occurring in Hanoi and Tuyen Quang province.
The ringleaders of the gambling ring, gambling in the form of football betting during the EURO season in Nam Dinh province, are two people residing in Giao Thuy district: Tran Van Vinh, born in 1995, and Do Trung Quan, born in 1996.
At the beginning of the EURO 2024 season, Vinh and Quan pooled hundreds of millions of dong to buy Agent-level football betting accounts and then divided them into many individual gambling accounts (Member level) for residents in and outside Nam Dinh province to participate in betting on football matches. In addition to organizing for gamblers to participate in betting, Tran Van Vinh also directly played the betting.
To conceal their crimes and deal with the police, the two ringleaders only lured and provided betting accounts to acquaintances with good financial conditions. From June 14, 2024 until their arrest, the total amount of football betting transactions of the subjects was 150 billion VND.
Through investigation and verification of the subjects in the football betting ring in Nam Dinh province, the Criminal Police Department of Nam Dinh province discovered and dismantled 3 more gambling rings, gambling via the internet in Hanoi and Tuyen Quang province; temporarily detained 4 subjects including: Nguyen Van Ngoc, born in 1990, residing in Tuyen Quang province; 3 subjects residing in Hanoi: Tran Van Doan, born in 1991, Do Van Tuan, born in 1991 and Pham Quang Khoi, born in 1993.
During the search of Pham Van Linh's rented room in Giao Thuy district, the police also discovered and seized synthetic drugs in the form of ketamine. Through rapid testing of people present in the rented room, 3 subjects tested positive for drugs. The Criminal Police Department, Nam Dinh Provincial Police is consolidating the case file to handle the subjects for the act of "Organizing the use and illegal use of drugs".
