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One afternoon, Su Qin, a man from Huai'an District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province, was chatting with friends on QQ when he suddenly received an advertisement on a game website saying that the website was fun and had a chance to win a lot of money. Su Qin was curious and clicked on the link sent by the other party to enter the website.
In addition to some traditional gambling games, there are also links with many large casinos such as Hong Kong and Macau, and players can participate in various gambling games being wagered online.
In addition, the website claims a high payout ratio, which is very attractive. Su Qin decided to play.
The $1.2 million in the card was gone
According to the website prompts, Su Qin registered as a member, recharged 2,000 yuan online, and began to participate in gambling. At the beginning, Su Qin was lucky and won a little money, but then he lost almost every time and lost a lot of money. Su Qin realized that there might be a problem with this website and called the police.
The police preliminary investigation found that the server of the website was set up abroad, and it was difficult to investigate and collect evidence, but the police closely followed, and after several months of hard work, they finally found that Fujian men Wang Xiaojun, Zhao Afu and others were suspected of major crimes.
On December 22, 2017, the police launched simultaneous arrests in Fuzhou, Fujian Province and Nanning, Guangxi, and four people, including Wang Xiaojun and Zhao Afu. According to their confessions, by December 6, 2019, the remaining 10 suspects had also been arrested.
After Wang Xiaojun was arrested, the police raided his residence and seized a bank card in his safe. But strangely, the next day, the 1.2 million yuan in the card was transferred to the unknown person's card. The police immediately launched an investigation and soon arrested Lv Rong, the wife of Wang Xiaojun who transferred the funds in the card.
It turned out that before he was arrested, Wang Xiaojun was also worried that he would be investigated, so he asked Lu Rong to get a bank card, which was specially used to store the money earned by gambling websites. After Wang Xiaojun and his people were taken away by the police with their cards, Lv Rong inquired by phone and learned that there were 1.2 million yuan in the card. Lv Rong then reported the loss of the card by phone, replaced the card the next day, and transferred all the money in the card. The police opened a case against Lu Rong for investigation on suspicion of covering up and concealing the proceeds of crime.
Find a small partnership to open a casino
Wang Xiaojun, in his 30s, is not highly educated, but he is flexible and shrewd. In October 2016, Wang Xiaojun saw that someone had made money by setting up an online gambling site, and he wanted to do the same. But the start-up capital of this kind of website is relatively high, and he has insufficient funds, so Wang Xiaojun decided to find a few people to partner with. The first thing Wang Xiaojun thought of was Fa Xiao Zhao Afu.
Wang Xiaojun learned from a friend that Zhao Afu had experience as an agent of gambling websites, and felt that he was the person he urgently needed, so he invited Zhao Afu to take a stake in his website. Zhao Afu agreed.
Subsequently, Wang Xiaojun invited two other small people to join the shares. The four discussed and jointly invested 200,000 yuan to open a gambling website. The four people also divided the labor: Wang Xiaojun was responsible for the construction and daily management of the website, and the other three were responsible for website promotion and customer service management.
Subsequently, Wang Xiaojun found a person who specializes in helping people build gambling websites on the Internet, Wang Xiaojun paid 50,000 yuan to let the other party be responsible for structuring gambling websites, and let him be responsible for game recharge, withdrawal and internal operation and management of the game after the operation of the website, and took 12% of the daily income of the website.
Gambling sites are "profitable" good
Wang Xiaojun et al.'s website called "Crown Official Website", said to be a gambling website, in fact, does not have its own separate gambling project, but is linked to Hong Kong Mark Six and other gambling games, players are attracted to the website, register a member and recharge, you can bet through the website to participate in gambling.
In addition to traditional gambling games such as Hong Kong Mark Six lottery, the website also has many lottery games, and is also linked to many large casinos in Macau, players can carry out baccarat, bullfighting and other gambling through casino live videos, the rules of the game are the same as those in the casino site, players only need to bet online.
So, why are players willing to participate in gambling on the websites set up by Wang Xiaojun and others, instead of directly logging on to the official websites of those gambling games in Hong Kong and Macau?
It turned out that in order to attract players, Wang Xiaojun and others set a payout ratio of 1:48, which is much higher than the official payout multiplier of the relevant game. After the official lottery results of the relevant game are announced, if the player wins, the website will pay according to 1:48, if the bet is not won, the player's bet money will be won by the website, which is the source of profit for the gambling site.
Subsequently, Wang Xiaojun rented a house in Fuzhou, bought office equipment, and recruited staff dedicated to website promotion. In November 2016, the gambling site went live.
But what disappointed Wang Xiaojun and others was that there were no players at the beginning of the operation, plus several people were locals, often went home, and did not fully devote themselves to the operation of the website, more than a month passed, the website was not profitable, and the 200,000 yuan fundraising had been exhausted. In order to tide over the difficulties, the four discussed and invited another shareholder to join and jointly pursued 200,000 yuan again.
In February 2017, they moved their work to Chongqing as a back-office management and website promotion work, and only Wang Xiaojun continued to work in Fuzhou.
After moving to Chongqing, business got better and better, and by August 2017, the four shareholders of Chongqing had paid dividends four times, with a total dividend of 2.52 million yuan.
The initiators of the company infighting flew solo
As the site's profitability grew, conflicts between several shareholders began to emerge. Several shareholders in Chongqing found that since the website became profitable, Wang Xiaojun has paid little attention to the operation of the website, and usually does not contact several shareholders in Chongqing, but often cannot find anyone when major matters need to be discussed collectively.
Several shareholders in Chongqing were so dissatisfied that they held a shareholders' meeting in Chongqing in August 2017 and decided to recover Wang Xiaojun's equity and strip him of his shareholder status. Soon, for the sake of safety, Zhao proposed to move the background of the website abroad. After some investigation, they finally moved the background of the website to Vietnam, and the website promotion work was moved to Nanning, Guangxi, which is closer to Vietnam.
Wang Xiaojun gladly accepted the resolution to deprive himself of his shareholder status and did not raise any objections. It turned out that Wang Xiaojun was already in Cambodia at this time and was running his own two gambling websites.
As early as March 2017, Wang Xiaojun saw that the "official website of the crown" was very profitable, and he had the idea of starting a new stove and going it alone. He had no intention of asking about Chongqing anymore, but quietly began to plan his own gambling website. Because he had been to Cambodia and knew that there were many people there who made money in this business, Wang Xiaojun decided to put his new website background in Cambodia.
Wang Xiaojun found the person who helped them build the website again, and spent 50,000 yuan to let the other party help him build a new website. In April 2017, Wang Xiaojun flew to Cambodia with three of his newly hired employees to start running the website. Because of his previous experience, Wang's new website in Cambodia quickly became profitable.
In order to attract more players, Wang Xiaojun rented an office in Fuzhou and recruited a number of staff to be responsible for website promotion. In May 2017, Wang Xiaojun, who tasted the sweetness, found someone in Cambodia to set up a new gambling website, which was run by the personnel he recruited, while Wang Xiaojun patrolled back and forth between Cambodia and Fuzhou, coordinating the operation of the two websites until he was caught.
According to police statistics, the "Crown Official Website" gambling website jointly built by Wang Xiaojun, Zhao Afu and others accepted a total of more than 68.52 million yuan of players during its operation, and the two gambling websites set up by Wang Xiaojun alone accepted players to recharge a total of more than 50.9 million yuan.
That is, in less than a year, gamblers recharged nearly 120 million yuan in the gambling websites they opened, and the three websites made a profit of nearly 10 million yuan.
On April 20, 2021, the police transferred the case to the Huai'an District Procuratorate in Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province for review and prosecution, and all 15 suspects in the case, including Lu Rong, signed a plea of guilt and punishment.
On May 18, 2021, the Huai'an District Procuratorate filed a public indictment with the court on suspicion of the crime of opening a casino, covering up and concealing the proceeds of crime. Wang Xiaojun absconded while on bail pending trial, and is now wanted online by the police.
On November 29, 2021, the Huai'an District Court of Huai'an City sentenced Zhao Afu to three years' imprisonment and a fine of 90,000 yuan for the crime of opening a casino, and the rest were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from nine months to four years and fined, and Lv Rong was sentenced by the court to three years in prison, suspended for five years, and fined 100,000 yuan for the crime of concealing and concealing the proceeds of crime. None of the accused appealed. (The names of the people involved in the article are pseudonyms)
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