Hai Phong (VNA) – More than 380 Chinese nationalsinvolved in a multimillion-dollar gambling ring in the northern port city ofHai Phong will be handed over to the Chinese side on August 1.
The Ministry of Public Security and Hai Phong’s police are extraditing them viathe Hanoi-Hai Phong Expressway and National Highway 1A.
The procedures to hand over the Chinese are expected to be carried out at theHuu Nghi International Border Gate in Vietnam’s northern mountainous provinceof Lang Son, in the morning of the same day.
Police and competent forces in the northern port city of Hai Phong busted aninternational online gambling ring involved over 380 Chinese nationals.
They raided the Our City residential complex on Pham Van Dong Street, Hai Thanhward, Hai Phong city’s Duong Kinh district on July 27, and found hundreds ofgambling machines installed in several buildings in the complex.
Preliminary investigations showed that online transactions, worth more than 3billion CNY (435.51 million USD), were carried out through different activitieslike sports betting and illegal lottery.
Police confiscated nearly 2,000 smartphones, 530 computers, bank cards, cashand other relevant objects and documents at the site.
The ring members, aged from 18-24, came to Vietnam as tourists and receivedaround 3,000 CNY (435 USD) each month.-VNA