Searching for the 'boss' of the million-dollar betting ring that was just busted by the police

On the afternoon of November 15, the Criminal Police Department of Da Nang City Police dismantled a gambling and gambling organization ring led by Dinh Van Cong Thanh (born 1983, residing in Thanh Khe Tay ward, Thanh Khe district, Da Nang city).

Through the investigation, Thanh confessed that in early June 2021, Thanh contacted a subject named Hai to receive the football betting network and reorganize it for gamblers and subordinates. Thanh used the Super Master football betting website KJ71 with a limit of 3 million USD. After obtaining the website, Thanh connected with subjects Nguyen Truoc, Dinh Van Cong Long, Ngo Dinh Duc and many other subjects to form a line to organize gambling and gambling via the Internet.

Thanh used the above KJ71 website to divide into 31 Master accounts, 99 Agent accounts, 340 Member accounts to organize gambling in the form of football betting. The subjects in this network have a strict division of labor, hierarchy, organization, and use high-tech means to commit crimes.

Subject Dinh Van Cong Thanh.

The electronic data extracted by the police showed that the subjects used mobile phones to access betting websites such as “SaSa...”, “B88...”, “nhacai...”… from which they divided and separated into many sub-websites to organize for other subordinates and “agents” for the purpose of illegal profit. With the form of increasing the conversion value of 1 USD betting unit to 20,000-30,000 VND.

The organizers continued to organize gambling for gamblers in many forms such as football betting, keno, over/under... Initially, the Investigation Committee determined that the amount of money organized and gambled by this line was up to thousands of billions of dong.

Particularly in the period from October 1, 2022 until the arrest (November 15, 2022), the players bet a total of 105,298 times with the total amount of money organized for gambling and gambling in the accounts being nearly 19 million USD (about 470 billion VND). This line was expanding its scale of operations, preparing for major football betting matches during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar when it was busted by Da Nang City Police.

Currently, the Criminal Police Department of Da Nang Police is expanding the investigation to clarify the "boss" who "spread the betting network" for Dinh Van Cong Thanh and other subjects related to this gambling ring.