Gambling is a pickpocketing industry targeting people with gamble spirit. People work hard to earn money, and their gamble mood leads them to pour their earnings into purchasing lottery tickets.
It is not known when gambling has existed, however, it can be affirmed that the gambling industry predates the feudal system. That is, a very long time ago, gambling appeared on this earth.
For gamblers, the probability of losing is higher than winning, however, for the organizers, it is winning, not losing. In the long run, the organizers always win. That’s why gangsters jumped into the gambling industry. Having organized gambling, the organizers are getting richer and richer.
The Communist regime views gambling as a social evil. However, they themselves do not resist the attraction of the gambling industry, especially the role of organizers. The lottery company model was born to let the state take money out of people’s pockets through the gambling. In order to legitimize a game that they consider themselves “evil,” invented by themselves, they add the word “construction” after the word “lottery,” even though the lottery companies do not spend any money to build the country.
Lottery industry is the industry that collects money from gampling people to distribute prizes. Currently, the structure of lottery prizes is 38% of the total income from ticket sales. That is, if they sell VND100 billion, they will only spend VND38 billion for all prizes. However, in many cases, the winning ticket is among the empty tickets, so the organizers have higher profits. Most of the time, when the unsold lottery tickets are returned, the organizers still has a huge profit, but they never lose.
In recent years, in the traditional lottery, there have no jackpot winners, although lottery ticket sellers are increasing day by day. Someone told us that, in fact, nowadays, it is very difficult to have random numbers, and the lottery results are just manipulated. The organizers can completely control the results of the lottery, although there are departments that witness the lottery. That’s one of the reasons why the chances of winning the lottery are less.
21 years ago, Long An province was shaken by the case of manipulating the Long An Lottery Studio. This case has prosecuted 17 defendants. However, these 17 defendants are all philanthropists, and the masterminds of manipulation are still outside the law. Since then, the phenomenon of manipulation has become more subtle, not as obvious as in the case of Long An province before.
When the ticket winning determination is manipulated, the group of bosses in the lottery companies can sell information to the gambling points, to make a profit. At the same time, they can also let their family members or relatives win the lottery. They even let their “pawns” win the lottery, and then the nominal winner has to return the prize to the team that manipulated the results.
In July 2022, the People’s Court of Dong Nai province sentenced Nguyen Van Minh (66 years old), former General Director of Dong Nai Lottery One Member Limited Liability Company (Dong Nai General Services and Lottery Company), to 5 years and 6 months in prison; and Nguyen Thi Thuy Oanh (64 years old, former Chief Accountant cum Head of Finance Department of Dong Nai Lottery Company), to 5 years in prison, both for the crime of “abusing positions and powers while on official duty.” These people have caused more than VND78 billion in damage to the state budget. Lottery officials often have large mansions, the reason is also because they earn so much from lottery.
Currently, lottery companies are forcing lottery ticket sellers to hold their unsold tickets. The purpose is for the lottery company to be more profitable, and for lottery officials to have a private residence. In addition to the lottery officials, other officials are also getting huge bribery. Today, no official gets money alone, they partner in the whole group for this purpose.
Vũ Minh (Translated)
