Busting a lottery ring with a scale of thousands of billions of dong
A gambling and gambling organization in the form of lottery with a scale of thousands of billions of VND, led by "Tuan Cho Goc", operating under the guise of a successful business and businessman, operating in many fields, including charity activities, was dismantled by Thai Binh Provincial Police; dozens of other subjects were arrested.
According to investigation documents, on March 24, the Investigation Police Agency of Thai Binh Province issued a decision to prosecute the case, prosecuting 39 defendants in the gambling ring. This is a large-scale case, operating in the areas of Thai Binh, Hai Duong provinces and Hanoi City, with some subjects operating under the guise of successful businessmen.
Initial investigation documents show that in 2024 alone, the amount of money transacted in gambling in this ring was about 2,500 billion VND. The ringleader of the ring is Bui Quoc Tuan (commonly known as "Tuan Cho Goc", born in 1970, residing at Lot A16, Thanh Cong residential area, Group 4, Quang Trung ward, Thai Binh city, Thai Binh province).
"Tuan Cho Goc" is the leader, operating the network under the guise of a successful businessman, operating in many fields, including charity.
Accordingly, Tuan directly established a network of many levels of followers and close associates (in Thai Binh province alone, there were 3 large networks), those at lower levels only knew their immediate superiors. Only those who assisted him effectively and were close to him knew about Tuan's role in the network.
During the operation, the subjects thoroughly used means and electronic telecommunications equipment to commit crimes; conducted transactions and communicated with each other via social networking sites such as Zalo, Telegram, SMS messages; established closed groups, recalled messages, dissolved closed groups, and automatically erased traces within the day...
Regarding the method of gambling payment, the subjects mainly use bank transfers through many different accounts; often changing account numbers and can transfer directly in cash.
In addition, "Tuấn Chợ Gốc" did not use bank transaction accounts (beautiful number accounts such as 666666, 888888 opened at the bank) to commit crimes, but only used subordinates' accounts, virtual accounts, junk accounts... registered by Tuấn to make transactions and pay winnings and losses.
During the urgent search of the suspects' residences, the investigation agency seized a large amount of cash; blocked and seized many assets and real estate with a total value of over 700 billion VND (including money, gold, silver, precious stones, cars, real estate in Hanoi, Thai Binh and related provinces and cities).
According to Colonel Pham Manh Hung, Deputy Director, Head of the Investigation Police Agency of Thai Binh Province, Head of the investigation team, this is only the initial result. The case still has many related subjects in many provinces and cities. Currently, the Investigation Agency is urgently and actively fighting, expanding the case, strictly and thoroughly handling related subjects and confiscating all assets obtained from crimes. At the same time, it will clarify signs of other crimes, if any, in accordance with the provisions of the law.
