Busting a football betting ring worth around 5 billion VND per day

On the morning of December 10, Dak Lak Provincial Police announced that they had successfully dismantled a large-scale online gambling ring involving World Cup football betting and lottery tickets, with a total transaction value of more than VND1,000 billion.

According to Dak Lak Police, in a peak period of crime suppression and security and order before, during and after the Lunar New Year 2023, the Criminal Police Department coordinated with the Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department to discover a large-scale gambling ring, gambling in the form of football betting and lottery numbers, and launched an investigation.

The subjects were arrested in the betting and lottery recording ring.

By December 7, Dak Lak Provincial Police had mobilized more than 100 officers and soldiers from various forces, divided into many working groups to closely monitor, ambush and arrest many subjects, and seize many pieces of evidence related to the organization of gambling, gambling in the form of lottery numbers and football betting on the Internet.

Evidence seized in gambling ring.

According to the initial investigation results, this gambling ring was led by Nguyen Trong Long (born in 1990), residing in Cu Ni commune, Ea Kar district, Dak Lak province, and organized by Nguyen Ngoc Khoa (born in 1989), residing in Ea Kar town, Ea Kar district. Up to now, the Investigation Police Agency has arrested and summoned 31 related subjects in the areas of Ea Kar, M'Drak, Krong Pak, Krong Nang districts (Dak Lak) and Khanh Hoa and Ba Ria - Vung Tau provinces.

The amount of gambling transactions per day is about 5 billion VND, the total amount of gambling transactions in the form of lottery and football betting of this line is up to more than 1,000 billion VND.

Police work with a subject in the network.

According to Dak Lak Provincial Police, the subjects are closely linked together, with roles divided for each person. The methods and tricks of this group of subjects are very secretive and sophisticated, they do not accept direct exposure of lottery numbers but use mobile phones to text, receive and transfer lottery numbers, and bet on football. At the same time, the subjects often change phone numbers. The main transaction in organizing gambling is using social networks such as Zalo, Messenger, Viber, Telegram to exchange information to deal with the police.

The amount of money the subjects used for betting was confiscated.

In particular, during the 2022 World Cup finals, Long and Khoa received 3 total football betting accounts on the Internet to divide into many accounts, and gave them to gamblers in many locations to participate in betting with a very large amount of transaction money.

Science Object.

Currently, the case is being further investigated by the Dak Lak Provincial Police Department to handle it according to regulations.