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"I'm going to report the 'Legend of Origins' gameI lost a lot of money in it......”Since 2021The public security organs have received reports one after anotherA utilizing game**Criminal gangs that carry out online gambling have surfacedHe accepted bets under the guise of online games, attracted gamers to gamble, set up a studio to help collect gambling money, and dragged his girlfriend into the water. In April this year, after the Lianyun District Procuratorate of Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province initiated a public prosecution, the court sentenced the defendant Yu and eight others to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from two to nine months for the crimes of opening a casino and aiding information network criminal activities, and each was fined, and some of the defendants were given suspended sentences.
After the first-instance judgment was rendered, one of the defendants appealed, and during the second-instance trial, he applied to withdraw the appeal. A few days ago, the court of second instance ruled to allow him to withdraw his appeal. At present, the judgment has entered into force.
Players report gambling games
Alai (not his real name) is an online game enthusiast who came across a game called "Origin Legends" at the end of 2021 while playing a legendary game.
When playing legendary games, credit is required to enter the map of the monster fight, and honor is obtained by placing a bet on the size of the 'Legend of the Origins' game. Alai contacted "A Firm" in the "Certified Firm" interface of the legendary game, and through the link provided by the firm's customer service** the "Origin Legend" game, only to find out that "Origin Legend" is actually a gambling game that bets on size after registering and logging in.
After contacting the customer service of the commercial bank to recharge, Alai will bet on the size of the bet with the game currency as a chip, and if the bet is successful, the game currency will be obtained, otherwise the game currency will be deducted. Alai said,He initially played "Legend of Origin" just to gain honor points, and then lost money, so he wanted to get back the capital, but he became addicted and lost more than 600,000 yuan in just a few months.
I'm going to report the 'Origin Legends' game, I lost a lot of money in it......"Since 2021, the public security organs have received reports one after another, and a criminal gang using games to carry out online gambling has surfaced.
In December 2021, the public security organs began to file a case for investigation, by carrying out investigation experimentsIt was confirmed that the "Origin Legend" game was an online gambling game software that used betting on size as a gambling method, and locked down the three commercial banks suspected of providing fund payment and settlement services such as recharge and withdrawal for the "Origin Legend" gambling game, "A Commercial Bank", "B Commercial Bank" and "C Commercial Bank".In June 2022, 12 people including Yu were arrested in Lianyungang, Nanjing and other places.
Domestic and foreign collusion to recharge and withdraw money for gamblers
After an in-depth investigation, the public security organs found that Yu and others who were brought to the case were only customer service personnel or bank card providers of the three commercial banks, not the bosses behind the scenes.
In 2019, Chen, who lives in Lianyungang, set up a studio in Ganyu District, the city, to sell equipment and exchange game currency for a legendary game, and asked his girlfriend Yu to help recharge and withdraw money for players. At the beginning of 2020, China continued to intensify the crackdown on online gambling, and Chen did not stop, but transferred the studio to Cambodia and continued to "play with fire".
I didn't know it was a gambling game at first, and it wasn't until July 2020 that some gamers called the police if they lost money, and Chen told me that 'Legend of Origins' was actually a gambling game. According to Yu, he did not participate again after knowing about it, and returned to China at the end of 2020.
In June 2021, due to the studio's major losses, Chen borrowed more than 80 yuan from Yu many times, and after continuous losses, Chen proposed to hand over part of the business to Yu. In order to recover his losses, Yu took over the work of providing gambling game links, recharge and withdrawal for gamers from Chen, and rented a house to set up a "A Commercial Bank" studio, employing his younger brother and friends as customer service, and employing Liu as an accountant, and cooperating with Chen's studio in Cambodia to contact and reconcile accounts every day.
1 RMB can be purchased090,000 game coins, recharge for gamers is 1 yuan to recharge 1050,000 game coins, and players are 110,000 game coins can be withdrawn for 1 yuan, which has a profit difference of 500 game coins, deducting 30% of the game background and player recharge rebate red envelopes, and the rest is our profit. Yu explained.
Because the accounts used to receive players' gambling funds are often frozen, Yu not only used his bank card, WeChat, Alipay and other accounts for the operation of the "A Commercial Bank" studio, but also borrowed dozens of bank card accounts from his studio members, relatives and friends.
After investigation, among the 12 people who came to the case, in addition to 4 people including Yu from the "A Commercial Bank" studio, there were also 6 people including Sun from "B Commercial Bank", Li from "C Commercial Bank", and Wang Mou who lent bank cards and other accounts to provide payment and settlement assistance in Lianyungang. As of the time of the case, the gambling funds collected by the three studios had reached more than 5,000 yuan.
It is understoodThere are more than 6,000 gambling participants in this caseAll over the country such as Jiangsu, Shandong, Heilongjiang, Guangdong, Beijing, etc., among them, there are not only unemployed people, self-employed workers, but also factory directors, managers and other company executives.
Completing the chain of evidence substantiates criminal intent
On November 1, 2022, the public security organs transferred the case to the Lianyun District Procuratorate for review and prosecution. Due to the large number of people involved, the large flow of funds, and the complexity of the case, the court set up a special case team.
Since the actual controllers of the three commercial banks involved in the case and the founders, operators, managers and other upline personnel of the gambling game ** have not been brought into the case, whether the facts of the crime of the relevant personnel can be determined is the first difficult problem we need to solve. Prosecutor Jiang Lili said.
After a comprehensive review of the evidentiary materials, the prosecutor in charge of the case believes that there are still facts in the case such as when the staff of the commercial bank subjectively knew that it was gambling**, whether they could establish contact with gambling**, and the amount of gambling money they helped to receive have not yet been clarified, so they returned the case to the public security organs for supplementary investigation in accordance with the law, and at the same time suggested that the public security organs extract the electronic data in the computers and mobile phones in the studio of the commercial bank involved in the case, fix the chat records between the personnel involved in the case and the upline and players, and obtain the risk control reminder information received by the personnel involved in the case. Obtain bank and other account transaction records and conduct audits, conduct interviews with gamblers for verification, etc., and guide the public security organs to investigate and collect evidence.
After supplementing and improving the relevant evidentiary materials, the public security organs re-transferred the case for review and prosecution on December 30 of the same year.
It has been ascertained after review in accordance with the lawSince 2021, Yu and other 5 people have provided fund payment and settlement services for the gambling ** even though they knew that the "Origin Legend" game ** was gambling**, and helped collect gambling funds ranging from more than 140 yuan to more than 1,300 yuan through their own and others' bank cards and other accounts, and were suspected of the crime of opening a casino. Wang and the other three clearly knew that others were using information networks to commit crimes, but still lent their bank cards to others for use, and were later used by others to receive gambling funds ranging from more than 500 yuan to more than 1,400 yuan, and were suspected of aiding information network criminal activities.
After the procurator's explanation of the law and reasoning, Yu and other 8 people signed a plea affidavit. On January 30 this year, the court filed a public prosecution in accordance with the law. On April 28 of the same year, the court adopted all the opinions of the procuratorate and rendered the above-mentioned judgment in accordance with the law, which has now taken effect. Chen and other persons involved in the case are being further investigated by the public security organs.
*: Procuratorate**, Rule of Law News Edition.