Footballer to 'Excuse Match Manipulation': Illegal Gambling Money Laundering

Disguised Gambling Site Deposit as 'Virtual Currency Transaction'
1 trillion won was laundered at 112 locations...Get 10 billion won in commission80 youth gambling users were also caught...Hand over to the Lead Review Committee

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A former professional soccer player who was punished for the K-League match-fixing case was arrested this time for leading illegal gambling site money laundering.

It was investigated that 1 trillion won worth of gambling funds was disguised as virtual currency transactions and 10 billion won was collected.

Reporter Kim Jong-ho reports.

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Money laundering office with servers linked to gambling sites.

This is the place set up by A, a former professional soccer player who was permanently kicked out due to the match fixing incident.Mr.

A's organization played a role in disguising members as virtual currency transactions when they deposited money on illegal gambling sites.Even if the

gambling site is cracked down, it can avoid investigation and not take away gambling funds on the logic that it was a virtual currency transaction.

[Lee Kyung-min / Head of Cybercrime Investigation at Busan National Police Agency: There are many cases where the account is suspended (during the investigation) so that the account cannot be used. This will ease the suspension of payments because it disguises itself as having made a normal cryptocurrency transaction.

Mr. A's organization, which made deals with 112 places, laundered KRW 1 trillion deposited by 66,000 gambling site members and collected about KRW 10 billion in commissions.

Among gambling sites using money laundering organizations, they are eager to promote artificial intelligence manipulation videos featuring famous celebrities, or

"Friends were happy with the result and won a large sum of more than 5 million won."

It turns out that some places have also gambled indiscriminately against teenagers.

The police arrested eight people, including A, and booked 11 people a day without detention, and handed over 80 youth users to the leading review committee.

In addition, we are tracking hidden criminal proceeds by continuing investigations into illegal gambling sites and users.

I'm Kim Jong Ho of YTN.