HANOI: Police in Vietnam have raided the house of the suspected mastermind behind a scam in which tens of millions of dollars of state funds were spent on illegal football gambling, state media said.
However, Nguyen Trung Hieu, the alleged ringleader of the huge football betting network, had disappeared by the time police searched his central Hanoi home on Friday, the Tin Tuc daily said.
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