1,500 Long An people gamble in TUOITRENEWS  Guests leave the lobby area of the Sentosa Resorts World Casino in On average, about 1,500 people from the southern Vietnamese province of Long An go to The southern province shares a borderline of 132 km with the two Cambodian provinces of Svay Rieng and Prey Veng, where 11 casinos and 5 cockfighting arenas are operating. Of these gamblers, 500 go to the neighboring country through Binh Hiep border gate in Kien Tuong town and the rest enters via the My Quy Tay in Duc Hue District. According to a survey by The figure was recorded in a survey conducted last year at 40 casinos and 23 cockfighting places in Gambling in any form is illegal under Vietnamese law except in casinos where only foreigners and overseas Vietnamese holding valid foreign passports are allowed. Victims Many Vietnamese gamblers from Long An have fallen victim to underground gang whose members are loan-sharks in One of them was 18-year-old Nguyen Huu Tinh, from the province’s Tinh in November 2011 reported to police that a casino named “Ba Quach” (“Mrs. Quach”) in Tinh’s mother told the police that a young man came to her house and handed her a black bag containing her son’s finger and asked her to bring US$3,500 to Tinh said he had been captured along with about 20 others, all of whom had either ears or fingers cut off and sent by the casino to their relatives in In another case, in January this year, three young men, an 18-year-old, a 17-year-old and a 19-year-old went to The young men were released after their families paid off their debts. |
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