{"id":777000341,"date":"2022-11-23T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T15:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777000341"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:43:04","slug":"vietnam-police-make-arrests-in-connection-with-suspected-online-gambling-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/vietnam-police-make-arrests-in-connection-with-suspected-online-gambling-operation","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam: police make arrests in connection with suspected online gambling operation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police have arrested 14 people on suspicion of running an illegal online gambling operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Vietnam.- Police in Ho Chi Minh City have made <strong>14 arrests in 15 locations<\/strong> in connection with investigations into an alleged online gambling operation. According to initial reports, it&#8217;s believed that the operation was run by Vietnamese citizens living in Cambodia. Betting accounts were allegedly being supervised and managed by seven managers located in Ho Chi Minh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say the platform was in operation for about three years and received more than VND100bn worth of bets on football, cockfighting and lottery games every week via Sobet.com, Bong88.com and SV288.com. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week ago, police in northern Bac Ninh province busted an&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/vietnam-police-bust-online-football-betting-ring-worth-us40-3m\" target=\"_blank\">online football betting<\/a>&nbsp;worth more than VND1tn (US$40.3m). A man named Nguyen Duy Tung is suspected of running an illegal gambling operation on a website named Bongda88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/vietnam-and-china-reinforce-collaboration-against-cross-border-gambling\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vietnam and China reinforce collaboration against cross-border gambling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested 14 people on suspicion of running an illegal online gambling operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19864,"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 authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have apprehended 14 individuals linked to an illicit online gambling syndicate, processing an estimated VND100bn weekly through platforms like Sobet.com and Bong88.com over three years. This follows a separate VND1tn online football betting bust in Bac Ninh province, underscoring Vietnam's intensified efforts against unregulated cross-border gaming operations.","focusai_entities":"Nguyen Duy Tung, Sobet.com, Bong88.com, SV288.com, Bongda88","focusai_location":"Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Cambodia, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Regional Policy","query":"What are the broader implications of these significant enforcement actions on Vietnam's potential future iGaming regulatory frameworks or regional anti-gambling cooperation?"},{"label":"AML & Payment Channels","query":"How were the illicit funds processed and laundered, and what vulnerabilities in regional payment ecosystems did this cross-border operation exploit?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777000341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777000341","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=777000341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777000341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777000371,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777000341\/revisions\/777000371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777000341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777000341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777000341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}