sentenced to between one and five years of imprisonment.
Article 247.- Performing superstitious practices
1. Those who perform fortune-telling, medium practices or other forms of
superstition, causing serious consequences, or who have already been
administratively sanctioned for such acts or already sentenced for such offenses, not
yet entitled to criminal record remission but continue to commit them, shall be
sentenced to a fine of between five million dong and fifty million dong, noncustodial reform for up to three years or to between six months and three years of
imprisonment.
2. Committing the crime and causing human death or other particularly serious
consequences, the offenders shall be sentenced to between three years and ten years
of imprisonment.
3. The offenders may also be subject to a fine of between three million dong and
thirty million dong.
Article 248.- Gambling
1. Those who engage in gambling in any form of winning or losing money or things
of great value or have already been administratively sanctioned for acts stipulated in
this Article and Article 249 of this Code or have already been sentenced for one of
such offenses, not yet entitled to criminal record remission but continue to commit
them, shall be sentenced to a fine of between five million dong and fifty million
dong, non-custodial reform for up to three years or between three months and three
years of imprisonment.
2. Committing the offense in one of the following circumstances, the offenders shall
be sentenced to between two and seven years of imprisonment:
a) The offense is of professional character;
b) Money or kind used in gambling are of very great or particularly great value;
c) The offense constitutes dangerous recidivism.
3. The offenders may also be subject to a fine of between three million dong and
thirty million dong.
Article 249.- Organizing gambling or running gambling-dens
1. Those who organize gambling or run gambling dens on a large scale or who have
already been administratively sanctioned for the acts defined in this Article and
Article 248 of this Code or have already been sentenced for one of such offenses, not
yet entitled to criminal record remission but continue to commit them, shall be
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