Implement the direction of the Director of the Lai Chau Provincial Police on the development and implementation of the Plan on strengthening the fight and eradication of gambling lines and organizations in the form of recording lot numbers and game numbers contrary to the law in Lai Chau province. The Criminal Police Division promptly and regularly coordinated management, grasped the situation of the area, received information from the public, reflected that it had discovered that in the area of Lai Chau city, a group of subjects took advantage of the sale of lottery tickets to Lai Chau Lottery Company to conduct gambling activities in the form of recording batch numbers and numbers contrary to the State's regulations, in order to avoid detection by the police.
The subjects from left to right are Dang Thi Phuong, Nguyen Thi Tuoi and Vu Thi Thuy
In the spirit of resolutely fighting against crime, in early June 6, the Criminal Police Department reported to the Director of the Provincial Public Security to decide to establish a special project with secret number 2023B to concentrate forces and take professional measures, fight and eliminate, contributing to ensuring the security situation. After many days of clinging to the area, tracking the subject, the scouts have collected many valuable documents about the background and sophisticated operation tricks of the subjects. Identifying objects selling lottery numbers to acquaintances or new players must be introduced by acquaintances, and at the same time use the messaging function via social networks Zalo, Telegram, Facebook, compare winning and losing within the day, then delete immediately to avoid detection by law enforcement.
With the collected documents. The special team identified that the subjects had been active for many years, were very vigilant, had escaped many raids by the police force, needed to solve the case soon, to avoid leaking information. Results: at 17:15 on June 08, 6, the Criminal Police Division chaired and coordinated with the units of the Technical and Professional Division, the Economic Police Department, the Mobile Police Department of the Provincial Public Security; The police of Lai Chau city divided into 2023 attacks simultaneously to solve the case, successfully arresting 3 subjects, including: Dang Thi Phuong SN 03, residing at: group 1958, Doan Ket ward, Lai Chau city Nguyen Thi Tuoi, SN 4, residing at: group 1956, Dong Phong ward, Vu Thi Thuy, SN 25, residing in: Phan Chu Hoa village, Nung Nang commune, Tam Duong district in the form of 1979, 23.000 gambling points. Players who buy numbers that match the last 2 numbers of 27 prizes announced on the day of the Northern Lottery will be paid 80.000 VND (if they match 2 prizes, the amount will be doubled), and the number of problems in the form of players buying arbitrary amounts of money choose 2 random numbers, if the chosen number coincides with the last two numbers of the special prize of the Northern Lottery of the day, the player will receive a reward 70 times the value of the number purchased.
Materials related to the gambling behavior of the subjects.
Through an emergency search of the residences of the three subjects, the Specialization Committee seized many documents related to gambling activities. In particular, through searching the residence, workplace and means of subject Dang Thi Phuong, in addition to papers and documents related to gambling behavior, the investigating agency discovered and seized 03 plastic packages inside containing black-brown plastic with a total weight of 05 grams (according to Phuong Khai, it was opium); 19,6 animal gall bladders (according to Phuong, 03 bear bile and 01 bull bile).
Initially exploiting, through professional measures and struggles, the subjects admitted gambling behavior in the form of selling lots and lots for a long time. The special committee determined that the amount of money related to the gambling behavior of the subjects amounted to more than 9 billion VND. Based on the collected documents, on June 09, the Police Department of Lai Chau Province issued a decision on criminal detention for Vu Thi Thuy, Dang Thi Phuong, and Nguyen Thi Tuoi for gambling.
Currently, the Criminal Police Department, Lai Chau Provincial Police are continuing to coordinate with professional forces to investigate and verify, expand and consolidate documents to strictly handle the subjects in accordance with the law.
According to the assessment and statistics of the Lai Chau Police, the crime of gambling in the form of lots, although it has been fought and dismantled strictly, but with the "attraction" of the "dream of getting rich", some people are lazy to work, the situation of gambling in the form of lots still silently crept and entices many people to participate. Objects involved in gambling in the form of illegal lot numbers and numbers are very diverse, can appear in all classes and professions in society, even officials in State agencies also participate in this evil.
The incalculable consequences of playing lotteries are not only for the players themselves, but also lead to instability in security and order and people's lives. The amount of money played at the beginning may be small, but when "thirsty" for silver, the amount can be up to hundreds of millions, even billions.
