China abolishes the underground casino betting
24 January 2005
China is a country where casino gambling or any other type gambling is illegal. The anti-gambling program was launched last week after a senior official was publicly exposed in a scam of loosing about $300,000 from public money, using it to fund his trips to a North Korean casino. Recently, police has swooped onto two gambling spots suspecting it held bets on sums of as much as $60m. This has prompted the arrests of online casino betting as well. The Beijing police has also ceased a man they believe has ran a local branch of international gambling involving among others things betting on football matches.
The large number of gamblers and organizers were arrested by the police, according to the record of Tong Jianming, an official at the Ministry of Public Security. Police seized 23m yuan ($2.8m; £1.5m) but the ministry believes the group and its mainland criminal gangs took bets amounting to five times that sum in Beijing alone since May.
The Beijing Public Security Bureau reports that collecting evidence on online gambling poses many challenges to their work, since gambling online generally requires an international credit card for cross-border transactions, and is therefore only open to well-off Chinese. Police in south west China's Yunnan province are cutting off the bank accounts of Chinese casino bosses who own the land based casinos in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.
Source: Online Casinos News Staff
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