Although the Spring Festival holiday has passed, but most of the citizens are still immersed in the joy of the New Year, relatives and friends after tea and dinner inevitably to entertain, playing poker cards and rubbing mahjong will be the more popular entertainment activities at the moment, but moderate entertainment is no problem, once the winning or losing exceeds the statutory amount of money, it will be suspected of gambling will face fines and detention.
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What is the difference between normal entertainment and gambling?
Come and find out,
Avoid unintentionally "stepping on the thunder" during the holidays!
Standards of public security penalties
According to Article 70 of the Public Security Administration Punishment Law, those who provide conditions for gambling for the purpose of making profits, or who participate in gambling with relatively large funds, shall be detained for not more than 5 days or fined not more than 500 yuan;
What is "crowd gambling"?
The Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Gambling (May 13, 2005) reads as follows:
In any of the following circumstances for the purpose of making profits, it is a "gathering crowd to gamble" as provided for in article 303 of the Criminal Law:
(1) Organizing gambling by 3 or more people, and the cumulative amount of profits from the draw reaches 5,000 yuan or more;
(2) Organizing gambling for 3 or more people, and the cumulative amount of gambling funds reaches 50,000 yuan or more;
(3) Organizing gambling for 3 or more people, and the cumulative number of participants in gambling reaches 20 or more;
So here's the question:
Can you accompany your mother, accompany your mother-in-law, play mahjong...
"Playing" between relatives
Is it a "gamble"?
The exception is small bets between relatives!
Article 70 of the Public Security Administration Punishment Act provides:
For the purpose of not making a profit, there shall be no punishment for entertainment activities such as playing mahjong and playing poker with money and property to win or lose; other people other than relatives shall not be punished for entertainment activities such as playing mahjong and playing poker with a small amount of property to win or lose. But how much is the "small amount"? Is there a standard?
In general, a small amount should, in principle, not break through the lower limit of the larger amount stipulated by various localities.
The chess and card room downstairs,
Is it considered "crowd gambling"?
Any of the following circumstances in the chess and card room may constitute "crowd gambling":
"Gathering people to gamble" refers to those who organize gambling with 3 or more people and the cumulative amount of profits from the draw reaches 5,000 yuan or more; those who organize gambling with 3 or more people and the cumulative amount of gambling funds reaches 50,000 yuan or more; those who organize gambling with 3 or more people and the cumulative number of participants reaches 20 or more; and organize 10 or more citizens of the People's Republic of China to go abroad to gamble and collect kickbacks and introduction fees from them.
Xiaobian should also remind that those who have the status of state functionaries; those who organize state functionaries to gamble abroad; those who organize minors to participate in gambling, or who open casinos to attract minors to participate in gambling, should be given heavier punishments.
What is the cost of gambling after being investigated and punished by the public security organs?
1. Persons who are in public security detention for a long time or who have been engaged in gambling for a long time or who have opened casinos, etc., will be criminally detained until they are sentenced. The New Year's Spring Festival is far more comfortable at home than in detention centers and detention centers! This is a common cost to gamblers.
2. Illegal and criminal records accompany lifelong;
3. Individuals joining the army, joining the party, going abroad, and studying abroad are all restricted, and it is difficult to pass the political examination of joining the army and joining the party;
4. Parents are sentenced for gambling, criminal records accompany them for life, their children's participation in the army, joining the party, going abroad, and studying abroad are restricted, and it is difficult to pass the political trial of joining the army and joining the party;
5. To apply for immigration visas and large-scale investment promotion activities, it is necessary to provide a certificate of no criminal record, and the criminal record will be accompanied by a lifetime, and citizens who are punished may not be recruited for active service.
6. In addition to the above-mentioned public security penalties, criminal penalties, and restrictions on individual children, public employees also face party and government disciplinary sanctions after being punished for gambling, or even dismissal from public office;
7. The formation of a previous criminal record of bad deeds is recorded in the case, and the subsequent violation or crime is given a heavier punishment.
During the Spring Festival, we must pay attention to visiting relatives and friends
Turn to friends and family for a reminder!
Source: Hohhot News Network