After CNC Company was turned into a shield company of C50, Dương was responsible for requesting permission to operate the game system. During the permission process, Phan Văn Vĩnh, Nguyễn Thanh Hóa provided supporting documents to request support from the Ministry of Information and Communications.
The presiding judge asked many questions related to the operation of RikVip card game without permission, and defendant Nguyễn Văn Dương repeatedly answered that “is currently seeking permission”. However, later, Dương also admitted that when cooperating with Phan Sào Nam to release and operate card games, they did not receive permission from the Ministry of Information and Communications.
During the operation of RikVip and Tip.Club card games, Dương admitted that he was not inspected by any functional agency (while Phan Sào Nam stated on November 17, during this period, RikVip and Tip.Club card games were inspected by PC50 Division, Hanoi Police and Ministry of Information and Communications Inspectorate).
Explaining the reason for only returning more than 244 billion Vietnamese dong out of the total benefited money of over 1,655 billion dong being charged, Dương stated that he has currently invested in many projects inside and outside the country, so he doesn’t have the time to recover and return the money to the investigating agency.
According to the indictment, CNC Company was established in September 2011. After defendant Nguyễn Văn Dương established CNC Company, Phan Văn Vĩnh and Nguyễn Thanh Hóa created favorable conditions for its operation. In early 2015, Dương agreed to accept the proposal of Phan Sào Nam, decided to issue card games, and then instructed Lưu Thị Hồng, CEO of CNC Company, to sign a cooperation contract with Phan Sào Nam to organize online gambling on the internet through the form of RikVip/Tip.Club card games, 23Zdo, Zon/Pen.
After signing the contract, Dương instructed the members of the company to rent domain names, register trademark messages; build a payment gateway connected to companies HomeDirect, VNPT EPAY, Ngân Lượng and GTS to implement operations and reconcile revenue from organizing gambling, illegal profit of more than 1,655 billion dong (in which, the RikVip phase is over 376 billion dong, the Tip.Club phase is 1,279 billion dong).
During the operation of card games, after obtaining a small amount of illegal profit from organizing gambling, Dương instructed Đoàn Thị Thu Hà (accountant of CNC Company) to transfer capital contributions to UDIC Investment Company, then borrow other people’s names, establish businesses, sign fictitious contracts to withdraw money, rotate and increase the value of capital contributions to UDIC Investment Company.
Until when obtaining money from illegal gambling activities, Dương continued to instruct Đoàn Thị Thu Hà and lower-level employees to transfer money to UDIC Investment Company under the name of the company, individuals, partners, in order to legalize the money from the gambling activities. In the middle of 2017, Dương sold shares in UDIC Investment Company for over 329 billion dong and withdrew the money to deposit and purchased floors 5 and 6 of Icon 4 Building as the headquarters of CNC Company.
In front of the investigating agency, Nguyễn Văn Dương (pictured above) admitted that he was provided with favorable conditions by Phan Văn Vĩnh and Nguyễn Thanh Hóa to organize online gambling on the internet, so when he obtained revenue from organizing gambling, Dương gave one Rolex watch worth 7,000 USD, 27 billion dong; 1,750,000 USD; a shirt, a bottle of liver tonic to Phan Văn Vĩnh; gave 700 million dong, a 30,000 USD antivirus software to the Crime Police Department, and gave 22 billion dong to Nguyễn Thanh Hóa.
Up to now, the investigating agency has proven that Dương gave 700 million dong to the Crime Police Department and a 30,000 USD antivirus software, but the giving of money and assets to Phan Văn Vĩnh and Nguyễn Thanh Hóa has not been clarified, so it will be processed later once it is clarified.
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