Eliminate gambling lines using high technology

Through the work of understanding the situation, Vinh City Police discovered that in Nghe An province there was an emerging gambling ring in the form of lotteries and lottery numbers using high technology with many participants and the amount of money delivered. big epidemic. This line is headed by Le Thi Phuong Lien and Pham Quang Chien. To deal with the authorities, the subjects also used junk sim cards and unofficial accounts to transact.

Implementing synchronous professional measures, on April 21, Vinh City Police simultaneously arrested Lien and Chien and 23 subjects in Vinh City and Cua Lo town, confiscating 28 mobile phones and many other people. related document.

Initially, the Vinh City Police Investigation Department determined that the amount of money the subjects gambled each day ranged from 500 million to more than 1 billion VND. Of which, on April 21 alone, the gambling amount was about 720 million VND.

Prosecuting more subjects in the “black credit” ring

On April 24, the Criminal Police Department, Ministry of Public Security said it had prosecuted and temporarily detained Bu Ga Ep Ski Tymur and Krav Chuk Iryna, both of Ukrainian nationality; Le Thanh Huynh Cang and Nguyen Thi Nhat Phuong both reside in the city. Ho Chi Minh City and 26 others for the crime of “Lending high interest rates in civil transactions”. The police are also consolidating files to handle additional people related to the above crime.

According to the Criminal Police Department, in 2019, Katerynchyk Roman, a Ukrainian citizen, entered Vietnam and established Loi Tin Trading and Services Company Limited. Roman colluded with a group of Vietnamese people, including Cang and Phuong, to operate “black credit”. In 2023, when he saw Vietnamese authorities fighting and strongly handling “black credit” gangs and Loi Tin Company was also subject to administrative inspection, Roman left Vietnam, and only Directors Cang and Phuong stopped operations of Loi Tin company.

After that, this group established 4 companies including: IXORA Trading and Services Company; Loc Tin Service Company; CACTUS Consulting Services Company and VINEX Services Company to operate a closed loan sharking process. Roman directed Tymur and Iryna to enter Vietnam to administer the systems and operate the technical processes of the above four companies; At the same time, direct and operate from abroad through software.

Since 2019, Roman gave Cang $400,000 for high-interest lending activities. In April 2023, Roman directed Loc Tin Services Co., Ltd. to continue receiving 11 million USD from Singapore’s SCA Company and Cyprus’ TAS Bank. To date, the police have determined that the group has lent money to hundreds of thousands of customers, with interest rates ranging from 365% to more than 1,970% per year, earning thousands of billions of dong in illegal profits.