Busting a gambling ring operating under the "corporate" model

This gambling ring is tightly organized in a "company" manner. The modus operandi is to take advantage of families having funerals or weddings to organize gambling and collect money...

On the afternoon of December 27, Colonel Nguyen Van Coong - Deputy Director, Head of the Investigation Police Agency of Hai Phong City Police, decided to give a bonus to the Department of Investigation Police on Social Order Crimes, for the achievement of destroying a gambling company disguised as a...

Through the work of managing the area, Team 8 - Department of Investigation Police on Social Order Crimes, Hai Phong City Police, discovered a large-scale gambling ring in Thai Hung village, Dong Hung commune, Tien Lang district, Hai Phong.

This is a gambling ring that is tightly organized in the form of a “company” with many people acting as organizers, assigning specific roles and tasks to each person such as holding the money, collecting “cash”, managing “cleaning the taste”, lending “pawns”, keeping watch…, some people even “hold money” and collect “pools” from gamblers. Some people stand up to lend money and pawn right at the gambling table.

The gambling den is organized in 2 shifts a day. Shift 1 is from 11:00 to 15:00, shift 2 is from 23:00 to 03:00 the next day. A person entering to play must pay a "pool" of 500,000 VND/shift. Through that, this gambling company attracts many people in Dong Hung commune and neighboring communes to participate. Notably, the operation method of the above gambling company is to take advantage of families holding weddings or funerals, to mix in and organize dice gambling right next door or opposite, making it difficult for authorities and people to pay attention and detect.

Objects and exhibits.

After a period of reconnaissance and research into the gambling company's methods and tricks of operation, at 1:10 a.m. on December 27, the Criminal Police Department's reconnaissance force, led by Team 8, in coordination with the local police, successfully raided and arrested 18 subjects organizing and gambling at the house of Nguyen Van Tien (51 years old) in Team 5, Hung Thang commune, Tien Lang district. The evidence seized from the gambling mat included 27.9 million VND, many gambling tools and 26 motorbikes.

As a result of the initial investigation, the investigation agency has clarified the roles of the subjects in the gambling company, in which the three leaders include: Pham Van Doan, (36 years old) residing in Tan Thang village, Tien Hung commune; Trinh Van Dung (23 years old) residing in Don Tren village, and Nguyen Ngoc (35 years old) residing in Chua Tren village, Vinh Quang commune, Tien Lang district, Hai Phong.

According to capital security