Dismantling 2 gambling lines worth thousands of billions of dong, arresting 24 subjects
(Baonghean.vn) - Vinh City Police have just initiated a case, prosecuting 24 defendants for the crimes of gambling and usury in civil transactions, clarifying the gambling amount of more than 1,500 billion VND.
Previously, in early September 2021, through the work of grasping the situation and implementing professional measures, Vinh City Police discovered in Nghe An province a line of suspected criminal activities of "Lending at high interest rates in civil transactions", "Organizing gambling" and "Gambling" in the form of online betting via the Internet.
Under the direction of the Provincial Police, Vinh City Police established a special project and focused forces to fight. By October 14, 2021, after consolidating sufficient documents and evidence, Vinh City Police successfully broke up the project, dismantling the "Organizing Gambling", "Gambling" in the form of football betting and "Lending high interest rates in civil transactions" ring, arresting 14 subjects.
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| Subject Nguyen Trong Linh. Photo: Duc Vu |
Among the arrested subjects, the police identified Nguyen Trong Linh (born in 1990), residing in Nam Cat commune, Nam Dan district, Nghe An province, as the leader of this ring, the remaining 11 subjects were all Linh's level 1 "agents".
Nguyen Trong Linh is the general account manager.football bettingIn Nghe An, this subject operated a gambling line on the bong88 website. Linh's account regularly received a large amount of gambling money.
Regarding the loan sharking activities in civil transactions, the police arrested two subjects, Nguyen Van Ba (born in 1985), residing in Hung Thong commune, Hung Nguyen district, and Ho Kim Quyet (born in 1987), residing in Hung Tan commune, Hung Nguyen district. These two subjects used the Mecash application to manage accounts for loan sharking.
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| Evidence of the case. Photo: Duc Vu |
At the Investigation Agency, with the documents and evidence collected by the Task Force, the subjects initially confessed to their crimes in Nghe An province. During the process of exploiting the subjects' phones, the Task Force determined that the football betting organization line was also related to subjects from other provinces and cities.
The task force carried out professional measures, made statements of bank accounts of related subjects and determined that the "Gambling Organization" line in the form of football betting above was the general agent of another "Gambling Organization" line.
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| Subject Nguyen Quoc Son. Photo: Duc Vu |
Expanding the verification, the police identified 8 other subjects residing in Thua Thien Hue and Thanh Hoa provinces related to Nguyen Quoc Son's gambling ring.
On October 20, 2021, Vinh City Police established 5 working groups to go directly to Thua Thien Hue and Ha Tinh provinces to arrest 10 subjects in this gambling ring.
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| The subjects in the case were arrested. Photo: Duc Vu |
Thus, Vinh City Police have dismantled 2 gambling rings, arrested 24 suspects in the ring, seized evidence including: 2 cars, 3 computers, 5 tablets, 37 mobile phones, 7 ATM cards and 5 billion 368 million VND in cash; and frozen 9 bank accounts for further investigation.
Initially, the subjects in the gambling ring were identified as participating in football betting from May 2021 to October 20, 2021 with a total of more than 1,500 billion VND.
The case is currently under investigation and expansion.
