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Police bust internet gambling ring
Dtinews 14:53, 2013/10/20
The police have arrested seven offenders who operated a large-scale online gambling website in HCM City, with accounts worth hundreds of billions of VND.


 

 Police seize evidence

After a long investigation into the gambling website 188bet the police from the Department of High-tech Crime Prevention, Criminal Police Department and the Ministry of Public Security conducted raids at a number of locations in District 1, District 11 and Tan Binh District.

At the headquarters of Vien Tin International JSC, in District 11, Vuong Chan Thanh and his wife, Dam Kim Khuyen, were arrested for playing important roles in the operation of the website.

The police also seized evidence, including money transfer forms and computers from their homes and offices.

 

 Thanh and his wife

According to an official from the Ministry of Public Security, 188bet was the biggest online gambling website in Vietnam to date, and its servers are in the Philippines. It allegedly employed agents in various countries.

The police had been investigating this website since 2005 but were unable to come up with hard evidence until recently. Though the initial investigation reported that the transferred money was as much as VND500 billion (USD24 million), the police said the case may only be the tip of the iceberg.

Most of those arrested were said to be operating under the disguise of telecom equipment companies. The police are currently expanding the investigation.

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