Phu Tho: 92 to be prosecuted for involving in online gambling ring
Police in northern Phu Tho province have asked the provincial People’s Procuracy to prosecute 92 people for involvement in a major online gambling ring.
Phan Sao Nam (R) and Nguyen Van Duong are accused of being the masterminds behind the online gambling ring (Photo: Ministry of Public Security)
Hanoi (VNA) – Police in northern Phu Tho province have asked the provincialPeople’s Procuracy to prosecute 92 people for involvement in a major onlinegambling ring.
On July 18, the Phu Tho Department of PublicSecurity proposed 92 persons be prosecuted for one or some of the charges oforganising gambling, gambling, illegally trading invoices, laundering money,bribery, using the internet to appropriate assets and abusing position andpower while performing duties.
During the probe, Phu Tho police launchedcriminal proceedings against 105 persons for the seven charges, butinvestigation into 13, 12 of whom are being hunted, was suspended.
They said there is sufficient evidence toconfirm that the online gambling ring through the card game Rikvip/Tip.club wasled by Phan Sao Nam (former Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director ofthe VTC Online Telecommunications Company – VTC online) and Nguyen Van Duong(former Chairman of the Member Council of the Hi-tech Security Development andInvestment Ltd Co. – CNC).
The ring included 25 tier-1 outlets, 5,877tier-2 outlets and 42,956,718 gambling accounts. It was found to have gainedmore than 9.85 trillion VND (428.2 million USD) in revenue from onlinegambling.
Deducting more than 3.7 trillion VND (160.9million USD) paid for gamblers and involved companies to cover managementcosts, staff’s salary and tax, the involved persons received some 4.71 trillionVND (204.8 million USD), including 1.47 trillion VND (63.9 million USD) forPhan Sao Nam and 1.65 trillion VND (71.7 million USD) for Nguyen Van Duong.
The investigation agency has seized more than1.34 trillion VND (58.3 million USD) of money from the ring organisers andaccomplices.
Phu Tho police said they also have sufficientground to ask for the prosecution of Phan Van Vinh – former Lieutenant Generaland former Director General of the Police General Department under the Ministryof Public Security, and Nguyen Thanh Hoa – former Major General and formerDirector of the ministry’s Hi-tech Crime Police Department, for abusing their positionsand power in association with the case.
Because of the case’s complexity, theinvestigation agency will continue the probe in a second phase to clarifypersons and organisations with suspected involvement in the ring.-VNA
The public security investigation agency, Phu Tho province's public security department, has issued a decision on starting legal proceedings against and an arrest warrant for a four-month detention of Nguyen Thanh Hoa, former Director of the Hi-tech Crime Police Department, on the charge of organising gambling.
The Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) has officially announced a crackdown on “using the internet to appropriate assets, organise gambling, gamble, illegally trade invoices and launder money in Phu Tho province and some other provinces and cities.”
Phan Van Vinh, former Lieutenant General and former Director General of the Police General Department under the Ministry of Public Security (MoPS), has been taken into custody for the charge of “abusing position and power while performing duties” relating to a major online gambling ring.
The Phu Tho Police’s Investigation Security Agency has widened the scope of an illegal online gambling investigation in Phu Tho province and some other cities and provinces.
Public opinion have expressed shock and anger after the discovery of a major online gambling ring with the involvement of some persons who used to be high-ranking officers of the people’s public security force.
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Phan Sao Nam (R) and Nguyen Van Duong are accused of being the masterminds behind the online gambling ring (Photo: Ministry of Public Security) 
