The police determined that the amount of money organized and gambled by this ring was more than 50 billion VND.
On December 19, the Criminal Police Department of Da Nang City Police said it was investigating and handling a group of people who organized a soccer betting line via the Internet.
Initially, the police had information that a group of people organizing an online soccer betting line operated quite sophisticatedly and had a large transaction amount, so they focused on verifying and collecting documents.
During the investigation, the police identified the two leaders as Le Chi Tuan (38 years old, residing in Hoa Bac commune, Hoa Vang district, Da Nang) and Mai Phuoc Ngoc (30 years old, residing in Hoa Hiep Nam ward, Lien Chieu district). , Danang).
The police also caught participants in the ring: Huynh Van Truong (54 years old) and Le Van Nam (43 years old, both residing in Hoa Hiep Nam ward, Lien Chieu district).
After consolidating documents and evidence, on December 18, the police force simultaneously arrested Le Chi Tuan and Mai Phuoc Ngoc for “Organizing gambling” and Huynh Van Truong and Le Van Nam for “organizing gambling”. gambling.
Through the investigation, this group admitted that from around January 2023 until now, Tuan and Ngoc contacted a person named Nhan (unknown background) to use the website Bong88 to access active betting accounts. Organize gambling in the form of online soccer betting.
This group divided this account into many subordinate accounts, assigned them to gamblers to bet on, and increased the conversion value of 1 USD betting unit from 12,000 VND to 17,000 VND to 20,000 VND.
Initially, the police determined that the amount of money organized and gambled by this ring was more than 50 billion VND.
Particularly during the period from November 14 until the arrest, this ring had a very large number of bettors with a total amount of money in the accounts of more than 2.1 billion VND.
Along with the urgent arrest and temporary detention of the above 4 people, Da Nang City Police also confiscated evidence including 5 mobile phones, about 200 pages of documents showing the history of the degrees from November 14 to November 17. 12 with a total transaction of 107,470 USD.
Police continue to investigate the case.