Vietnamese police have handed over to their South Korean counterparts six South Korean nationals who had been arrested for setting up gambling websites for about 4,000 gamblers in South Korea, with the total money involved amounting to 10 billion won (US$9.28).
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Police officers in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on Friday said they transferred to South Korean police the six online gambling organizers: Im Seung Woo, 35; Kim Seul Gi, 24; Jung Bon Yong, 33; Lee Yong Hu, 33; Lim Young Jae, 34; and Han Seok Gyeong, 34.
South Korean police will escort the six back to South Korea for trial on organized gambling charges in accordance with the laws of the country, Ba Ria-Vung Tau police said.
Local police captured the organizers on Wednesday, January 21, in a villa they had rented on Le Hong Phong Street, Thang Tam Ward, Vung Tau City, with the aid of a police unit from the Ministry of Public Security.
Vietnamese police officers had earlier detected many signs of organized gambling from these foreigners and reported their findings to South Korean police.
On January 13, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Vietnam informed the Ba Ria-Vung Tau police that the South Korean police determined that the act of organizing gambling on the Internet by the six violated the laws of South Korea.
Gambling in any form is also banned in Vietnam.
The South Korean police later sent three investigators to Vietnam to coordinate with the Ba Ria-Vung Tau police in a further investigation that led to the arrest of the six people on January 21.
From August 2014 to the time of their arrest, these suspects set up many gambling websites for about 4,000 members with computer IP addresses from South Korea, Ba Ria-Vung Tau police officers said.
These gamblers spent about 10 billion won (roughly $9.28 million) on the online gambling, the provincial police added
While searching the villa in Vung Tau City, police seized more than 10 computers and a lot of equipment and devices that served the operations of the online gambling network.
The detainees told police that they had been sent to Vietnam by a South Korean named Choi Hojun, 39, and were told to rent the said villa to organize online gambling activities.
They also said Choi Hojun had stayed in the same villa with them but he returned to South Korea before the police raid.
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