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gang of illegal gambling operators was arrested.
Among them, there is also a former gang leader.
It was revealed that even in this corona virus, dozens of people gathered and wagered hundreds of millions of won.
Reporter Hong Seung-yeon reported.
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an office in a shopping district in Busan, people with bundles of cash sit around their seats and gamble.
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CCTV was installed outside the office to monitor who came in and out in real time.
In Hongseong, Chungcheongnam-do, a house was turned into a gambling hall, and people with masks on their chins or even without them are conspicuous.
The video was filmed in May of this year, and in non-metropolitan areas, gatherings of 5 or more people violated quarantine rules.
Police said that they had handed over a 50-year-old man A, a former gang leader in Busan, to the prosecution on charges of opening a gambling venue, etc.
They are accused of recruiting dozens of people from December last year to May of this year to open an illegal gambling house and collect a 2% fee per game.
In addition, to those who ran out of money, they lent their gambling funds at a 10% pre-interest rate, and the size of their gambling games reached hundreds of millions of won.
[Choi Hae-young / Busan Police Agency Violent Crime Investigation Division 2nd Director: He opened an 'Adosaki' gambling house in a sparsely populated city commercial housing building and took tens of millions of won in unfair profits (the gambling
gang
was arrested and sent.)] In
particular, a former gangster boss A He committed the crime while being tried without detention on charges of fraud, such as approaching a man with kidney failure to help him with a kidney transplant and extorting 69 million won.
The police are also planning to pursue and arrest those who took part in gambling.
(Video coverage: Park Young-joon KNN, video editing: Park Ji-in, video courtesy: Busan Metropolitan Police Agency)