Recently, Sichuan ** announced a large cross-border online gambling case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, arrested 93 criminal suspects, and seized more than 2,000 yuan of stolen money. The criminal gang set up gambling dens in the Philippines to attract Chinese gamblers to gamble online, with nearly 1 million registered members online in China, and the funds involved in the case exceeded 725.5 billion yuan. A few days ago, the first batch of 50 suspects have been transferred to the court for public trial on suspicion of opening a casino.
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One day in May 2023, Mr. Yuan, who lives in Deyang City, Sichuan Province, accidentally saw a "Kakawan" gambling link on the Internet.
Citizen Mr. Yuan: After I clicked in, a customer service contacted me, asked me if I wanted to play, and told me that if I wanted to play, I would recharge 100 yuan and give me a registration bonus of 2 or 300 yuan.
But he soon found that he couldn't recharge directly, and under the guidance of the customer service, Mr. Yuan transferred the recharge money to the bank card designated by the customer service to complete the account registration and recharge, and then saw the real-time screen of a casino online. According to the customer service, when to bet and how much to bet, just play **, and the on-site dealer can help him operate.
Citizen Mr. Yuan: At the beginning, I won a little bit, and after I won, I thought that since I was so lucky, I would continue to play, and slowly play bigger and bigger.
Tasting the sweetness of winning, Mr. Yuan soon fell into it. Unexpectedly, after winning a few handfuls, Mr. Yuan began to lose money continuously, in order to turn over, he recharged the amount of bets increased from thousands of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan, and in less than half a month, he lost more than 100,000 yuan of savings.
Citizen Mr. Yuan: When I recharged a few thousand yuan and 10,000 yuan, I turned over the book, and I kept recharging it until I was reminded that the balance in my own account was insufficient, and at that time I found that I had recharged it all. I lost more than 100,000 yuan in my bank card.
Mr. Yuan regretted it too much, so he suddenly woke up and called the police. In the following period, Luojiang**, Deyang City, Sichuan Province, successively received a number of similar reports from residents in the jurisdiction. After a preliminary investigation, the relevant clues all pointed to an overseas Philippine gambling group. To this end, Deyang Luojiang ** set up a special case team to carry out an investigation, and the Ministry of Public Security quickly listed the case as a case for supervision.
Zhang Ji, police officer of the Luojiang District Bureau of the Deyang City Public Security Bureau: Whether it is data analysis, including touching and visiting, it was found that the headquarters of this criminal gang is overseas. But there are some other branches in the territory of ** people.
Yang Boyu, police officer of the Luojiang District Bureau of the Deyang Municipal Public Security Bureau: The gambling ** was set up overseas, mainly to attract gamblers in China to participate in gambling, involving a large number of people.
The investigation by the police found that Mr. Yuan's gambling was only one of the three portals of an entertainment city in the Philippines, and the casino online gambling group was a Kaka resort hidden in the Philippines, and they mainly attracted domestic personnel to gamble online by opening a live casino on the Internet, with more than 50,000 Chinese nationals alone, with a total of nearly 1 million registered members.
Yang Boyu, police officer of the Luojiang District Bureau of the Deyang Municipal Public Security Bureau: If the amount of gambling participants is large, the bank card flow can reach tens of millions of yuan, and the winning and losing situations can reach millions of yuan.
High salaries abroad are used as a lure for erbium.
It's really going abroad to recruit customers and solicit gambling.
There are nearly 1 million members, more than 50,000 Chinese nationals**, and a turnover of more than 725.5 billion yuan. With such a huge scale, how did a gambling syndicate located outside China manage to carry out illegal acts against Chinese gamblers?
* After an in-depth investigation, it was found that more than 300 people were involved in the gang, and the operation and management personnel were all in the Philippines. Through the assistance of the local ** in the Philippines, the task force quickly grasped the specific trajectory of the people involved in the case. In recent years, the gang has been recruiting waiters, chefs, cleaners and other names in hotels in the Philippines to publish information through the Internet and recruit people with high salaries in China.
Zhang Ji, police officer of the Luojiang District Bureau of the Deyang Municipal Public Security Bureau: Because the gambling involved in the case is aimed at gamblers in China, the gambling group must find staff in China who can speak Mandarin to carry out gambling behavior against gamblers in China. **The salary released on the release is very high and very attractive, and the salary of a month can be about 15,000 yuan.
Many people are induced by high salaries to apply for jobs, and leave the country under the operation of domestic labor agencies, but they have strayed into the road of breaking the law and committing crimes.
Zhang Ji, police officer of the Luojiang District Bureau of the Deyang Municipal Public Security Bureau: The intermediary actually didn't tell the truth to these migrant workers, but directly said that they were working at the front desk of the hotel, or such as a chef, and lured these people over first.
Zhang Ji, police officer of the Luojiang District Bureau of the Deyang City Public Security Bureau: First of all, we had to fly from the territory to Manila, and after the Manila office of the gambling group involved in the case was contacted, the domestic intermediary contacted and picked up the employees at the airport. When the staff arrived in Manila, they went to the casino.
After a period of training**, these overseas personnel gradually accepted the casino work, and mastered the online cross-border gambling promotion skills, and became the core members of the gambling group to expand the business in the Chinese market.
Zhang Ji, police officer of Luojiang Branch of Deyang City Public Security Bureau: Recruiting Chinese in the past is mainly engaged in the core work in casinos. For example, ** accept bets, the network accepts bets, including receiving complaints from Chinese gamblers, including network maintenance.
In the face of high salaries, many people know that working for gambling groups is illegal and criminal, but they still take risks to develop Chinese gamblers and increase their commission performance.
Many gamblers are like Mr. Yuan, first small wins and then big losses, in order to turn over the cost of borrowing online loans to owe huge debts, and some gamblers are developed into domestic ** people, and their relatives and friends are developed into their own downlines.
Yang Boyu, police officer of the Luojiang District Bureau of the Deyang Municipal Public Security Bureau: After the downline of the domestic ** participates in gambling, regardless of whether they win or lose, the ** account will receive a commission, and we have learned that some ** people involved in the case can reach 40 or 50 million yuan, and the profit can reach 4 or 5 million yuan a year.
93 suspects were arrested.
More than 2,000 yuan of stolen money was seized.
Cross-border gambling not only harms financial order and economic security, but also seriously endangers citizens' legitimate property and personal rights. In order to maximize the recovery of losses, it was decided to cut off these online gambling activities as soon as possible. However, the employees of the gambling syndicate are all abroad, so how can the special case team arrest these people and bring them to justice?
The task force consulted with judicial, entry-exit and other departments, and quickly formulated a breakthrough plan to "eliminate domestic personnel, punish domestic employees, cut off recruitment channels, and cut off the capital chain". **Research and analysis believe that the period when the people involved in the case return to China for vacation in the second half of 2023 is a good opportunity to carry out arrests.
In June 2023, after fully finding out the whereabouts of the returnees involved in the case, the task force organized police forces to go to more than 20 provinces such as Henan, Hebei, Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi, and Jiangxi to carry out centralized arrest operations with the assistance of local **, and the main members of the gang, Li, Zhao, Deng and others were arrested one after another.
So far, a total of 93 suspects have been arrested, and a large number of mobile phones and bank cards involved in the case have been seized. A few days ago, the Luojiang District People's Court of Deyang City, Sichuan Province openly tried the first batch of 50 criminal suspects and will announce the verdict at a later date.
Yang Boyu, police officer of the Luojiang District Bureau of the Deyang Municipal Public Security Bureau: At that time, we searched more than 10 mobile phones, hundreds of bank cards involved in the case, and more than 50 yuan in cash involved in the case in Zhao's rental house.
*Reminder that participating in online gambling and opening gambling ** are all illegal and criminal acts;Cross-border gambling and online gambling seem to be live broadcasts, but in fact, they are controlled by criminals to win and lose.
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