The step was taken to protect account holders and to maintain the integrity of the national financial system. Dormant accounts are those that show no transaction activity over a certain period.
Alexander Sabar, head of the ministry's digital space monitoring, was quoted by local media as saying that more than 1.2 million items were found on online gambling sites, while the remaining 132,000 were detected on social media platforms.
The Myanmar government is working with the international community to identify and crack down on crimes, including illegal online gambling and online fraud.
Indonesian Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs Meutya Hafid said on November 20 that the country is intensifying its cyber patrol to detect and prevent online gambling which has become increasingly complicated there.
Competent forces in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh have detained three men attempting to exit Vietnam illegally, during their patrol in Ben Cau district that borders Cambodia.
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has recently announced that all social media and Internet messaging services with at least eight million registered users in Malaysia must apply for an applications service provider class licence under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 (Act 588).
The Cambodian Government aims to transform Sihanoukville, the capital of Preah Sihanouk province, into Cambodia’s industrial hub – a “second Shenzhen city”, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Economy and Finance Vongsey Vissoth said.
The Thai Health Promotion Foundation will be keeping its eye on 10 worrying and unhealthy behaviours among Thais next year, particularly those related to social media.
The Hanoi-based High-Level People’s Court has decided to reduce the imprisonment penalties for 13 defendants that were involved in an online gambling ring, considered the biggest of its kind uncovered in Vietnam so far.
The People’s Court of the northern province of Phu Tho announced its judgments on November 30 for the 92 defendants involved in the major online gambling ring.
The People’s Procuracy of the northern province of Phuc Tho announced the arraignments on November 21 for the main defendants involved in a major online gambling ring.
The provincial Phu Tho People’s Court on November 12 brought to trial two former senior officers of the Ministry of Public Security and 90 accomplices involving in a major online gambling ring.
The People’s Procuracy of the northern province of Phu Tho on August 31 completed the indictment for Phan Van Vinh, former Lieutenant General and former Director General of the Police General Department under the Ministry of Public Security, and Nguyen Thanh Hoa – former Major General and former Director of the ministry’s Hi-tech Crimes Department.
As reliance on information technology becomes ever more pervasive in society, cybercrime has grown rapidly both in quantity and sophistication in Vietnam, experts said.
Minister of Public Security To Lam has answered questions on major issues of public concern such as black credit activities, hi-tech crime, online gambling, organised crime and violations committed by officers working in the security sector.
Public opinion have expressed shock and anger after the discovery of a major online gambling ring with the involvement of some persons who used to be high-ranking officers of the people’s public security force.
The Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) has officially announced a crackdown on “using the internet to appropriate assets, organise gambling, gamble, illegally trade invoices and launder money in Phu Tho province and some other provinces and cities.”
Malaysian police are set to launch its largest ever crackdown on illegal gambling nationwide, according to Deputy Inspector General of Police Noor Rashid Ibrahim.
