Gambling with the Nasdaq Futures Index...illegal trade worth 100 billion won

Illegal gambling place disguised as overseas futures trading program
Real-time Linkage with Domestic and Foreign Futures Index...6,200 subscribers
Gambling on the rise and fall of the futures index...the stakes of KRW113 billionPromote as a legal futures exchange...Gang Joins Operations
11 billion won in proceeds from gambling...a luxury accident and a waste of entertainment expenses.

[Anchor]
Police have caught an online illegal gambling center operating organization disguised as a stock futures trading site.

It was a method of betting the stakes in anticipation of the fluctuations of the Nasdaq Futures Index, and it turned out that the money exchanged here was more than 100 billion won.

The car is a journalist.

[Reporter]
A graph showing the flow of the market is displayed on the screen.

Real-time selling and buy orders are also displayed on one side.

It looks like an actual stock trading program, but what was done off-screen was online illegal gambling.

Mr. A's organization in the 30s has offices in Cambodia and Vietnam and created an illegal program in July 2022 that links domestic and foreign gift data in real time.

Impersonating as a stock expert, he created a so-called "investment leading room" that attracted more than 6,200 participants.

The program was used to bet on the rise or fall of the U.S. Nasdaq or Hong Kong futures index, and the confirmed size alone is more than KRW 100 billion.

[Lee Kyung-min / Head of Cybercrime Investigation at Busan National Police Agency: If users bet on the rising or falling market, the organization will pay, and if they fail to match (user's) losses will be the proceeds of the crime of the members.]

Some people put in investments without knowing it was a gambling place because they disguised themselves as a legitimate exchange, and there were cases of losing as much as 700 million won.

It turned out that gangs were also involved in the operation of the gambling center.

We secured cannon bankbooks and fake phones for use in the crime from members in their 20s and 30s in Gyeongnam, and entrusted them with money laundering.

Police explained that the 101 billion won earned from operating the gambling center was spent buying luxury goods or on entertainment expenses.

The police have arrested 36 members of the group on charges of opening a gambling center, arrested 10 people, and are chasing three people, including the chief who fled the country.

YTN Cha Sang-eun.