Suspicious Lights in a Mountainous Area of Chungnam...Mass Arrests of Gangsters Operating Gambling Dens

A large number of organized crime members and gambling participants operating illegal gambling dens while moving through the hills of Chungnam were arrested.

On the 2nd, the Chungnam Provincial Police Agency announced that they had arrested 6 organized crime members in the Dangjin area and 50 gambling participants, and detained 3 operators.

According to the police, the illegal gambling dens were held from March to April in the hills of Asan, Dangjin, Yesan, and Seosan in Chungnam, recruiting customers from all over the country while moving locations.

The operators, including organized crime members, divided roles such as the head, recruiters, and managers, and ran the gambling dens by taking 10% of the betting money as a commission.

At the illegal gambling dens set up by the group in the hills, a so-called "Dorijitgo Ttaeng" Hwa-tu gambling game, which runs 20 to 25 rounds per hour, was held, and the betting money was investigated to be in the scale of hundreds of millions of won. On the day of the arrest, the police confiscated betting money exceeding 100 million won.

In particular, the operators selected about 10 remote hill locations in advance as gambling dens during late-night hours to avoid police crackdowns, installed tents at different locations daily, and the recruiters notified the people they usually managed of the intermediate location. Only those who passed interviews conducted at the designated locations were taken by the vans operated by the group to the actual gambling sites.

The police received intelligence in March that tents were being set up in the hills to operate gambling dens and began an investigation. They analyzed 50 CCTVs near the hills where gambling dens were expected to be established over two months to identify vehicles and gambling locations.

A police official said, "We will strengthen intelligence gathering on illegal activities of organized crime groups and prevent criminal acts in advance through preventive criminal activities," and urged, "We ask the public to actively report to the police if they discover illegal activities by organized crime groups."

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