Police dismantle large-scale gambling ring using AI for money laundering
This is a large-scale trans-national organised crime ring operating with sophisticated methods, notably introducing a new method that has appeared for the first time in Vietnam using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to commit the crimes.
Equipment is used for gambling and money laundering. (Photo: VNA)
Thai Binh (VNS/VNA) – Police in the northern province of Thai Binh have launched legal proceedings against a criminal case involving 21 individuals charged with gambling and money laundering offences.
This is a large-scale trans-national organised crime ring operating with sophisticated methods, notably introducing a new method that has appeared for the first time in Vietnam using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to commit the crimes.
Earlier, the police identified the website 'KUBET' with servers located abroad.
This site hosted numerous gambling games for money, including a lottery, betting on football results, and 'tai xiu' (a type of dice game).
Users accessed the site via mobile phones, created gambling accounts linked to their bank accounts in order to deposit and withdraw funds, and then selected available game types to place bets.
By the time of the raid, there were over 1 million gambling accounts with a total betting amount of over 1 trillion VND (39.2 million USD).
Expanding the investigation, the police uncovered that, in addition to gambling and organising gambling, the suspects also engaged in money laundering.
A suspect based in Taiwan (China) acted as the ringleader, linking with a domestic suspect to manage operations.
They hired individuals to open bank accounts in Vietnam so that gamblers could deposit betting funds. The individual in Taiwan then used computers connected to pre-installed internet banking apps to conduct transactions through various bank accounts, aiming to conceal the origin of the gambling funds.
For transactions of 10 million VND (392 USD) or more, which required biometric verification, the suspects used AI-generated videos of the account holders' faces to bypass bank security protocols. That way the account holders did not need to be physically present to complete the transactions.
To date, the police has frozen over 500 bank accounts, with an estimated total of over 200 billion VND (7.84 million USD) laundered each month.
From September 2024 to April 2025, the estimated total laundered amount exceeded 1 trillion VND (39.2 million USD).
Officers are continuing to expand the investigation into the ring./.
This action followed an earlier successful operation by provincial police that resulted in the apprehension of 23 individuals connected to high-tech criminal syndicates operating from Cambodia via cyberspace.
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