Busting a billion-dollar online lottery ring

Xuan created many accounts on a website, then instructed gamblers to bet, and the winnings and losses would be transferred to bank accounts.

The Criminal Police Department (C45) - Ministry of Public Security announced on September 13 that it had successfully dismantled a gambling ring and gambling in the form of lottery and football betting on the internet in Hanoi.

This gambling ring with billion-dollar transactions was led by Le Thi Xuan (born in 1908, residing in Lieu Giai ward, Ba Dinh district, Hanoi) and Tran Thi Kim Thuy (born in 1982, residing in Royal City urban area, Nguyen Trai street, Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi). In addition, C45 arrested a number of other related subjects, seized many exhibits and more than 2 billion VND.

The exhibits were seized by the police.

Initially, the investigation agency determined that Xuan was the owner of the general agent lottery account. The form of betting is on the internet www789.net. Winning or losing depends on the results of the Northern lottery.

Betting and payment of gambling money on the account is agreed upon 1 point = 1000 VND, in addition there are instructions on the % betting rate for each bet and % commission profit for subordinate accounts, agents or gamblers...

In addition, Xuan also divides accounts into different levels to both manage and divide gambling accounts.

Xuan assigned these accounts to his close juniors such as Nguyen Cat Cuong (in charge of network engineering), Le Thi Thuy, Tran Thi Kim Thuy, and Tran Minh Tram.

These subjects are under Xuan's management in dividing direct gambling accounts to give to gamblers in the area or directly receiving "exposing" boards or messages, faxes, emails... from gamblers to directly place bets on gambling accounts with Xuan.

To facilitate the operation and payment of gambling money of the line, Xuan and his juniors opened accounts at banks to transfer money to each other's accounts.

Xuan stipulated that after "closing the book", the subjects would notify each other via text message of the total amount of money won or lost. The loser could transfer money to Xuan or she could direct that person to transfer money directly to the account of one of the subjects in the network.

The investigation agency determined that, from June 2016 to now, the payment transactions between Xuan and his accomplices amounted to several billion VND. In Xuan's account alone on July 22, 2016, the amount of winnings and losses amounted to more than 245 million VND.

Among the arrested subjects was Nguyen Cat Cuong (born in 1983, residing in Hanoi). Cuong was assigned to assist Xuan with network technical operations. He monitored the subjects' betting activities and instructed gamblers on how to operate the machine, how to place bets and fix errors... under Xuan's direction.

Currently the police investigation agency is expanding the case.

According to VOV