Three Korean men arrested for running online gambling website

The men allegedly opened the website last November by using a server based outside the country. GETTYIMAGESBANK

By Jung Min-ho

Three Korean men have been arrested in Vietnam for allegedly running an illegal gambling website, according to

local media

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Local police arrested the men ― surnamed Kim, 46, An, 41, and Kim, 24 ― at their home in Vung Tau, the capital of Ria-Vung Tau Province in southern Vietnam, Friday (local time), on charges of operating an illegal gambling website for more than five months.

They entered Vietnam on tourist visas and allegedly opened the website last November by using a server based outside the country. Police said transactions on the site totaled more than VND170 billion ($7.3 million).

Investigators seized 39 desktop and laptop computers, 20 mobile phones, nine bank cards and devices for online payments.