The criminal vice captain opened a casino and lost more than one hundred billion dong

Tomorrow (April 12), the People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City will open a first-instance trial to try defendants To My Nhi (34 years old, living in Ca Mau province), Ngo Nhut Thanh (49 years old, living in Tan Phu district, Ho Chi Minh City) and 2 charges of “Gambling” and “Organizing gambling”. Defendant Doan Hong Phuc (former Vice Captain of Criminal Police Team of Tan Phu District Police, former Deputy Chief of Police in Ward 6, District 6), Song Hy Phu (38 years old, living in District 11), Nguyen Van Thanh (47 years old) , living in Tan Phu district), Huynh Minh Phung (28 years old, living in Tan Phu district), Tran Manh Huy (Nhi’s husband, 42 years old) were tried for the crime of “organizing gambling”.

The defendants Dinh Van Phung (48 years old, living in Tan Phu district), Pham Thanh Phong (41 years old, living in District 6), Tran Van Tai (48 years old, living in Binh Tan district), Trinh Anh Tuan (47 years old, living in District 6) 11), Le Quoc Dung (51 years old, inspector of Market Management Team No. 15, under the Market Management Department of Ho Chi Minh City), Le Ngoc Quyen and Nguyen Cong Vien (52 years old, living in Tan Phu District), Nguyen Trong Long (27 years old, living in Tan Phu district) was tried for “Gambling”. Previously, this trial was opened twice, but the Trial Panel had to postpone it because the defendant had COVID-19.

Rent a house 50 million VND/month to open a casino

According to the indictment to be announced at this trial, Doan Hong Phuc is the Deputy Chief of the Police Department of Ward 6, District 6, but before that, at the time of committing the crime, Phuc was the Deputy Head of the Police Criminal Police Team. Tan Phu District. On September 10, 2019, Doan Hong Phuc signed a contract to rent a house in Tan Phu district, Ho Chi Minh City for 50 million VND/month.

At the end of 2019, Phuc introduced an acquaintance, To My Nhi, to meet Ngo Nhut Thanh to organize a casino together, in the form of playing the gray card with a 52-card Western card at the house that Phuc hired above. Ngo Nhut Thanh and Doan Hong Phuc agreed, the profits will be divided equally among all three people including Phuc, Thanh and Nhi.

For the Lunar New Year 2020, Phuc, Thanh and Nhi’s casinos start operating. At 3:10 p.m. on May 5, 2020, the reconnaissance force of the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department’s Drug Crime Investigation Department discovered a record of arresting offenders for the act of “organizing gambling”. and “Gambling” at Phuc’s house, seized evidence of money used for gambling and coins (money that the gamblers agreed to pay a part of to the gambling organizer after each gambling game- PV).

In addition, expanding the investigation, the police determined that the defendants had organized gambling in the form of cockfight betting over the internet to collect commissions from the network. From October 2019 to May 2020, the amount of money gamblers gambled at these casinos amounted to over 130 billion VND.

As of May 5, 2020, at the time of discovery, the defendants had three times divided the string money, an average of 30 million VND/time, including 1 time To My Nhi directly gave the string money to the victim. Doan Hong Phuc, the remaining 2 times Nhi gave the string money to Tran Quang Minh (who was an acquaintance of Phuc and gave it to Phuc). Defendants Thanh and Nhi stated that the reason was “concern to host a casino with Doan Hong Phuc at Phuc’s place” because Phuc is a police officer.

According to Tan Chau