Recently, the Gaotai Internet Police in Zhangye City, Gansu Province successfully detected a caseIn the extraordinarily large cross-border online gambling case, 137 criminal suspects were arrested, and the flow of funds involved was as high as 6700 million!
February 2023,Network Security Brigade of Gaotai County Public Security Bureau, Zhangye City, Gansu ProvinceIn their work, the police found that many residents in the jurisdiction, such as Ma Moumou and Zhang Moumou, were betting and gambling on the "Ben Moumou Bao Entertainment City"**, and the amount of gambling involved was large and the number of participants was large.
This aroused a high degree of vigilance among the cyber security police, and the Gaotai County Public Security Bureau quickly set up a special case team to actively carry out case filing and investigation.
After careful investigation, the task force found thatThis is a cross-border online gambling gang whose customer service operation and maintenance is in the Philippines, and remotely directs domestic personnel to open casinos and transfer gambling funds.
Through the investigation of the expansion of the gambling involved in the case, it was found that the gang had set up network technology companies in Myanmar and the Philippines since 2015, and under the "guise of software development", a large number of domestic personnel were recruited to play the role of customer service and other roles all year round with high salaries as bait, providing help to the overseas black and gray industry chain.
According to the investigation, the company has more than 100 employees all year round, and there are many people involved in the case and the criminal chain is relatively complex.
After investigation, the criminal gang operated 6 online gambling handicaps, mainly in baccarat, Russian roulette, 21 points, Texas Hold'em and other ways, using the return rate, preferential activities, and small and large to lure gamblers on the thief ship.
There are more than 1 million registered members, and the amount involved is 6More than 700 million yuan, with an average daily turnover of more than 1,000 yuanThis has led to a large outflow of funds, posing a major threat to the personal and property safety of Chinese citizens and social stability.
In order to evade the investigation and crackdown of the public security organs, the criminal gang in this case used overseas communication tools during their work in the Philippines, and the life accounts of the gang members were strictly separated from the accounts of the crimes, and the gang members were strictly prohibited from bringing their mobile phones into the company.
The company's internal personnel all use "pseudonyms", and the internal regulations do not reveal the true identity of individuals and make friends with each other, and the sense of anti-reconnaissance is very strong. But the Internet police still found important clues.
After multi-party investigation and evidence collection, the task force carefully formulated an arrest plan, dispatched capable police forces, and went to Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong and other 19 provinces and 36 places across the country to carry out centralized network collection operations.
So far, a total of 137 suspects have been arrested in this case, and 181 illegal gains have been recovered830,000 yuan, seized 74 mobile phones and 42 bank cards, blocked 46 gambling gangs, knocked out 1 criminal group that opened a casino, and eliminated 8 criminal gangs that ran away from money laundering, completely destroying and cutting off the criminal chain of this extraordinarily large cross-border online gambling gang.
On October 21, 2023, the Gaotai County People's Court heard the case, investigated the criminal responsibility of the relevant persons involved in the case in accordance with the law, and announced the verdict at a later date.
Criminals through the development of APP, ** and other forms, with "recharge rebates", "points exchange" and other means to induce victims to participate in betting, wearing the skin of online games, the practice of cross-border gambling, the ultimate goal is to defraud money.
Please be vigilant against cross-border online gambling, consciously resist any form of gambling behavior online and offline, domestic and overseas, and actively report gambling-related harmful information and illegal and criminal clues to the public security organs.
*: Cyber Security Bureau, Ministry of Public Security.