Thai Binh dismantles transnational gambling and money laundering ring worth up to 1,000 billion VND

On the morning of May 30, Thai Binh Provincial Police initially informed the press about a large-scale, transnational organized crime ring with sophisticated tricks, especially a new trick that appeared for the first time in Vietnam: using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to commit crimes.

Through professional work, the police agency determined that the website "KUBET" has a server located abroad, on the site there are many betting and gambling games for money through games such as: lottery, football betting, over under...

Players use mobile phones to access, create gambling accounts and link them to bank accounts to deposit and withdraw gambling money, then choose available game forms on the site to bet. By the time of the raid, there were more than 1 million gambling accounts, with gambling money of about more than 1,000 billion VND.

Expanding the investigation, the investigation agency discovered that in addition to gambling and organizing gambling, the subjects also carried out money laundering, led by a subject in Taiwan (China) in liaison with a subject in the country.

Subjects in the gambling and money laundering ring. (Photo: Provided by the police)

The subjects hired people to open bank accounts in Vietnam for gamblers to deposit money for gambling; then the subjects in Taiwan controlled computers connected to phones with pre-installed internet banking apps to transfer money through many different bank accounts, with the purpose of concealing the origin of the gambling money.

For transactions of 10 million VND or more, biometric scanning is required. The subjects create AI clips of the account owner's face to bypass the bank's biometric authentication security layer. The account owner does not need to do it directly.

Subjects in the gambling ring and evidence of the case. (Photo: Provided by the police)

To date, the investigation agency has frozen more than 500 bank accounts, determining that each month the subjects laundered about 200 billion VND; from September 2024 to April 2025, it was about more than 1,000 billion VND.

The Investigation Police Agency of Thai Binh Province Police has decided to initiate a criminal case, prosecuting 21 defendants for the crimes of "Gambling" and "Money Laundering" as prescribed in Articles 321 and 324 of the Penal Code.

The decisions have been approved by the People's Procuracy of Thai Binh province.

It is known that the case is being further investigated and clarified.

MAI TU

Source: https://nhandan.vn/thai-binh-triet-pha-duong-day-danh-bac-rua-tien-xuyen-quoc-gia-len-toi-1000-ty-dong-post883380.html