{"id":34767,"date":"2022-10-25T09:33:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T12:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=34767"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:36:51","slug":"vietnam-3-prison-guards-arrested-for-running-online-football-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/vietnam-3-prison-guards-arrested-for-running-online-football-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam: 3 prison guards arrested for running online football gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the police, the prison guards made transactions totalling more than VND17bn ($684,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vietnam.- Three prison guards have been arrested on suspicion of organising online football gambling. According to VN Express, one of the prison guards, <strong>Vu Tri Tuyen<\/strong>, began operating gambling accounts and then handed them over to prison officers Pham Minh Tien and Nguyen Dinh Tuan.&nbsp;He allegedly used two other accounts to gamble personally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police say that together the three prison guards made transactions totalling more than VND17bn ($684,000).&nbsp;Gambling in Vietnam is illegal outside a handful of venues and is punishable by a fine of between VND100m and VND50m (US$430 to US$2,150) and 3 to 7 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vietnamese citizens are only allowed to enter into two casinos:&nbsp;one on the southern island of Phu Quoc and the other in Van Don in the northern province of Quang Ninh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March last year,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/vietnam-casinos-ask-government-to-let-locals-gamble\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">casino operators<\/a>&nbsp;asked the government to expand&nbsp;<strong>Vietnamese citizens\u2019 access to casinos<\/strong>&nbsp;in major tourist destinations such as&nbsp;<strong>Quang Nam and Ba Ria-Vung Tau<\/strong>&nbsp;to help casinos face the loss of revenue from tourists due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, authorities rejected the petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the police, the prison guards made transactions totalling more than VND17bn ($684,000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Three prison guards in Vietnam have been arrested for orchestrating and participating in an illegal online football gambling operation, involving transactions exceeding VND17bn ($684,000). This incident underscores Vietnam's stringent anti-gambling regulations, where most forms of gambling are prohibited for citizens, despite prior industry petitions for expanded legal market access.","focusai_entities":"Vu Tri Tuyen, Pham Minh Tien, Nguyen Dinh Tuan, VN Express","focusai_location":"Vietnam, Phu Quoc, Van Don, Quang Ninh, Quang Nam, Ba Ria-Vung Tau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Vietnam Gambling Enforcement","query":"What are the broader implications of this high-profile arrest for the Vietnamese government's stance on online gambling regulation and potential market liberalization, particularly concerning B2C licensing frameworks?"},{"label":"Illicit Market Scale","query":"How does the reported VND17bn transaction volume in this illegal operation compare to the GGR of regulated gambling venues in Vietnam, indicating the scale and economic impact of the illicit market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911,233],"class_list":["post-34767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34767","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34785,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34767\/revisions\/34785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}