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Vietnam police arrest 26 punters for illegal football betting
HANOI: Twenty-six people in football-mad Vietnam have been arrested for gambling illegally on European Champions League matches, police said yesterday.
The men, aged between 27 and 42, were arrested in a raid on a hotel in the southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City on April 9, a police official said.
We will be continuing our investigation as the network took bets from punters in other provinces via telephone on other European football matches, he said.
The network was believed to have great influence on football betting circle in Ho Chi Minh City, with bets sometimes reaching billions of dong (hundreds of thousands of dollars).