Recently, the Gaotai Internet Police in Zhangye City, Gansu Province successfully detected a large cross-border online gambling case, arrested 137 criminal suspects, and the capital flow involved was as high as 670 million!
Case review
In February 2023, the police of the Cyber Security Brigade of the Gaotai County Public Security Bureau of Zhangye City, Gansu Province found in their work that many residents of the jurisdiction, such as Ma Moumou and Zhang Moumou, bet and gamble on the website of "Ben Moumou Bao Entertainment City", involving a large amount of gambling and a large number of participants.
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 that this was a cross-border online gambling gang with customer service operation and maintenance in the Philippines, remotely directing domestic personnel to open casinos and transfer gambling funds.
Peel back the threads
Through the investigation of the expansion of the gambling website involved in the case, the police found that the gang had set up network technology companies in Myanmar and the Philippines since 2015, and under the "guise of software development", they recruited a large number of domestic personnel to serve as website 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 of the relevant website, and the amount involved is more than 670 million yuan, with an average daily turnover of more than 1,000 yuan, resulting in a large outflow of funds, posing a major threat to the personal and property safety and social stability of mainland citizens.
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 it was also difficult for Uncle Internet Police, no, Uncle Internet Police still found them along the network cable.
Centralized network collection
After the police investigated and collected evidence from various parties, the special case team 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.
Up to now, a total of 137 criminal suspects have been arrested in this case, 1.8183 million yuan of illegal gains have been recovered, 74 mobile phones and 42 bank cards have been seized, 46 gambling websites have been blocked, 1 casino criminal group has been eliminated, and 8 criminal gangs have been eliminated for 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.
Internet police reminder
Criminals induce victims to participate in betting by means of "recharge rebates" and "points exchange" through the development of APPs, websites and other forms, wearing the skin of online games and practicing cross-border gambling, and their 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.
Transferred from: People's Daily client
Source: WeChat official account of the Cyber Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security