Singapore Crime Boss Gets Five Years for Illegal Online Gambling Syndicate

The leader of an illegal online gambling mob was sentenced to a upper limit v years and fivesome months in a Singapore prison house Mon for masterminding a lottery-betting getup that generated multimillions of dollars.

Lim Beng Tiong, 57, was originally arrested along with 48 other suspects inwards 2016, inward what the Straits Times described at the clip as one of the largest police operations against a felon mob inwards Singapore.

Among those detained were other leaders of unionized offense groups, the newspaper publisher said. Some were among the number 1 to follow charged below Singapore’s recently enacted Organized Crime Act.

Following matching raids across the island, law said they froze 36 properties with an estimated note value of nigh $39 gazillion and $6.5 zillion inward bank building accounts.

Earlier this year, Lim pleaded shamed to deuce charges under Singapore’s Remote Gambling Act, and trio others below the Organized Crime Act.

4D and TOTO

According to judicature documents, Lim’s organization controlled websites that allowed customers to submit bets on TOTO and 4-D lotteries. 4-D refers to “4-Digits,” a lottery variant pop inward Singapore and Malaysia, which is ilk Pick-4 in the US. TOTO is a more traditional lottery draw, using at to the lowest degree hexad balls.

The aggroup had networks of agents that would raise customers, gift them log-in inside information to memory access the syndicate’s websites. It also had employees who performed roles same electronic network support, collecting debts, and tallying accounts, prosecutors said.

The procedure poised S$2 zillion (USD$1.49 million) inwards bets inwards the month preceding the arrests. Between Jan 2013 and Nov 2016, it gathered up to S$4.32 one thousand thousand in illegal bets.

According to English-speaking Singapore paper TODAY, Lim began the surgical process in 2001 with his brother, Lim Meng Seng. But he took over the modern-day numbers fraudulent scheme around 2012 when his blood brother suffered a stroke.

Lim is described inwards court documents as “the shareholder and operator” of the websites. He was also a shareholder inward another website which he did non operate.

More Await Sentencing

Those arrested at the same clip as Lim included male parent and boy Ow Choon Bok, 44, and Ow Gowan Hock, 73. They were also charged with operating an illegal drawing website, the now-defunct ss772.net.

In Dec finally year, the jr. Ow was sentenced to 5 years inward prison house and fined S$500,000, patch his male parent was jailed for three-and-a-half years and fined S$300,000.

Three brothers, Steven Seet Seo Boon, 54, Eric Seet Seow Huat, 63, and Prince Philip Seet Sian Thian, 71, who operated websites including www.asure6.net and www.888pool.net, are awaiting sentence.