Busting an online gambling ring with transactions worth billions of dong
An online gambling ring with transactions worth billions of dong each month has just been busted.
On December 30, the Criminal Police Department of Da Nang City Police announced that it had just dismantled a project called "Organizing gambling, gambling in the form ofsoccer bettingover the internet", arrested 3 related subjects.
Around mid-November 2024, through reconnaissance work, Team 4, Criminal Police Department discovered a gambling ring, gambling via the internet in the form of football betting with large sums of money, involving many subjects. The scale of the ring spread across many districts of Da Nang city and other localities.
During the process of collecting information and documents, Team 4's reconnaissance identified the mastermind and leader of this gambling ring as Vo Si Huynh (32 years old, residing in Hoa Cuong Bac ward, Hai Chau district) and a number of related "henchmen".
To concentrate forces and means to fight and dismantle the network, on December 24, the Criminal Police Department reported and was authorized by the Chief of the City Police Investigation Agency to establish a special project, assigning working groups to monitor and supervise the activities of the subjects day and night.
At 3:30 p.m. on December 26, the Criminal Police Department coordinated with professional units to dismantle the case, urgently arresting 3 subjects including: Vo Si Huynh, Tran Quoc Si (36 years old, residing in Hoa Cuong Bac ward) and Nguyen Phuong Nam (39 years old, residing in Nam Duong ward, Hai Chau district). The functional forces seized evidence including cash, 2 cars and hundreds of pages of documents showing the history of football betting.
Notably, from November 22, 2024 until his arrest (December 26, 2024), the total amount of money organized for gambling and gambling in the accounts was more than 31,000 USD (equivalent to about 890 million VND).
At the police station, the subjects initially confessed to organizing gambling, gambling in many different forms such as football betting, keno, over-under, bingo..., with transaction scales reaching billions of dong per month.
