Phan Van Vinh, former Lieutenant General and former Director General of the Police General Department under the Ministry of Public Security, has been taken into custody for the charge of “abusing position and power while performing duties” (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Phan Van Vinh, former LieutenantGeneral and former Director General of the Police General Department under theMinistry of Public Security (MoPS), has been taken into custody for the chargeof “abusing position and power while performing duties” relating to a majoronline gambling ring.
According to the MoPS’s official announcement onApril 6, the Investigation Security Agency under the Department of PublicSecurity of Phu Tho province issued a decision on starting criminal proceedingsagainst and an arrest warrant for a four-month detention of Phan Van Vinh, whowas born in 1955 and resides in Vi Hoang ward of Nam Dinh city, Nam Dinhprovince.
He faces the charge under Clause 3, Article 281of the 1999 Penal Code. He is accused of being involved in the case of “usingthe internet to appropriate assets, organise gambling, gamble, illegally tradeinvoices and launder money in Phu Tho province and some other provinces andcities.”
Also on April 6, President Tran Dai Quang signeda decision to strip Vinh of the title People’s Public Security officer.
Phu Tho police are expanding a probe into thecase to clarify the responsibility of concerned persons.
On March 11, 2018, the Phu Tho InvestigationSecurity Agency launched legal proceedings against and an arrest warrant forNguyen Thanh Hoa, former Major General and former Director of the MoPS’s PoliceDepartment for Hi-tech Crime Prevention, who is accused of “organisinggambling” relating to this case.
Police recently announced that Phan Sao Nam(born in 1979, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director of the VTCOnline Telecommunications Company – VTC online) and Nguyen Van Duong (born in1975, Chairman of the Member Council of the Hi-tech Security Development andInvestment Ltd. Co. – CNC), are accused of being the masterminds behind theonline gambling ring. Meanwhile, Hoang Thanh Trung (born in 1978, DeputyDirector of the Nam Viet Investment Development Service Co. Ltd and formerDirector of the VTC Technology and Digital Content Company – VTC Intecom) haddeep involvement in the case.
Their crime was supported by many persons,police said.
As of March 14, 2018, the investigation agencyhad launched legal proceedings against 83 persons. Among them, 41 persons wereprosecuted for the charge of organising gambling, 38 for gambling, four forillegally trading invoices, two for laundering money and one using the internetto appropriate assets.
The probe initially found that the money paidvia legal and illegal payment gateways exceeded 9.58 trillion VND (around 422million USD), including more than 9.29 trillion VND via pre-paid telecom cardsand game cards, accounting for 97 percent of the total money involved. About168 billion VND (7.4 million USD) was sent from bank accounts.-VNA
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