According to the Cybersecurity Agency, as part of the plan to dismantle the organized gambling and online betting network through the website Kxxx.com, in the early hours of January 8, under the direction of the Ministry of Public Security leadership, 17 task forces including cybersecurity and high-tech crime prevention forces and the Criminal Police conducted urgent searches and summoned individuals in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and the provinces of Dong Nai, Binh Duong, and Hai Duong.
The search resulted in the seizure of: 132 various bank cards, 2 laptops, 43 computer hard drives, 30 mobile phones, a large amount of cash; numerous fake national ID cards, 2×3 photos of many different individuals for the purpose of forging national ID cards, and many other documents related to the organization of gambling and betting activities.
As a result, the Criminal Investigation Agency of the Ministry of Public Security has arrested and detained 10 individuals, including 5 who played a role in organizing the gambling and 5 who participated in gambling. The individuals organizing the gambling also showed signs of forging seals, documents of agencies and organizations; using false seals and documents of agencies and organizations to commit crimes.
To facilitate the organization of gambling, the individuals forged national ID cards or used ID cards of individuals, friends, and relatives, hiring people to open hundreds of bank accounts in Vietnam to transfer and receive gambling money for foreign bookmakers.
In addition, the organizers developed an intermediary payment system (quick money transfer service) to provide to foreign bookmakers for transferring and receiving gambling money in Vietnam. Gambling participants deposited money into bank accounts and directly engaged in gambling through sports betting, online casinos, and lotteries…
To participate in betting, players had to register personal information, create member accounts on the Kxxx.com website, and transfer money to bank accounts provided by Kxxx.com.
To conduct gambling activities in Vietnam, foreign individuals colluded with many Vietnamese individuals to establish agency accounts to advertise, attract, and lure Vietnamese people to participate and open many personal accounts at Vietnamese banks as representative accounts to receive gambling money transfers.
The organized gambling and betting ring through the website Kxxx.com operates nationwide with thousands of accounts participating in gambling, with the transaction amount reaching thousands of billions dong.
The bookmaker Kxxx.com is an entertainment group with a modern and large-scale online betting system, currently having representative offices in nearly 50 countries worldwide, such as: the UK, Belgium, Ireland, the United States, Argentina, and has its headquarters in Manila, Philippines. The bookmaker established the Kxxx.com website to organize gambling for players in various forms, such as: casinos, sports betting, and lotteries worldwide, including Vietnam.