Police bust reveals illegal online gambling network operating 187 gambling websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Vietnam.- Vietnamese police, working alongside China\u2019s Ministry of Public Security and the Zhuhai Police, have arrested 395 suspects for operating an illegal internet gambling organisation worth more than RMB3 billion (\u20ac394 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The raid uncovered a tranche of domain names that included the words Grand Lisboa Macau, the name of one of Macau\u2019s most iconic integrated resorts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to China state news agency\u00a0Xinhua<\/em>, the suspects were arrested in Vietnam\u2019s Hai Phong City near Hanoi where 21 criminal gangs were working together across ten rented apartments from which they were running the 187 gambling websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The operation is said to have been started by a group of five individuals in Shenzhen and Huizhou in 2017 before moving to Vietnam in 2018. A large number of citizens from Haiphong City are thought to have been employed by the syndicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police bust reveals illegal online gambling network operating 187 gambling websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Vietnamese and Chinese authorities have dismantled a vast illegal online gambling network, arresting 395 suspects and uncovering 187 illicit websites with a turnover exceeding \u20ac394 million. The operation, which began in China in 2017 before relocating to Vietnam, highlights significant cross-border enforcement against sophisticated black market iGaming operations.","focusai_entities":"China\u2019s Ministry of Public Security, Zhuhai Police, Xinhua","focusai_location":"Vietnam, China, Hai Phong City, Hanoi, Macau, Shenzhen, Huizhou","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Cross-border Enforcement Efficacy","query":"What specific governance frameworks and intelligence-sharing protocols facilitated this successful cross-border enforcement operation between Vietnam and China, and how can these be replicated for future illicit network disruptions?"},{"label":"Black Market GGR Impact","query":"How does the estimated RMB3 billion turnover of this illegal network compare to the regulated GGR in adjacent markets, and what is the projected impact of such large-scale black market operations on legitimate operator NGR?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,439,16333],"tags":[228,4138,94],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-illegal","tag-online-gambling","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}