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Actress An Yixuan's Macau husband Chen Ronglian was involved in illegal gambling and other crimes, fraud and other crimes, and stepped down as CEO of Macau Dejin Group after being arrested, and was sentenced to 14 years in the first instance. Chen Ronglian and the former chairman of Suncity Group, "Xi Mihua" Zhou Zhuohua, were both known as casino tycoons in the past, but now Zhou Zhuohua has been charged with 289 counts and sentenced to 18 years in prison by a Macau court, which is listed as one of the "top ten cases" in the mainland, and the official media revealed the details of the crime.
An Yixuan's husband Chen Ronglian was involved in illegal gambling, and CCTV revealed the details of the crime. (Photo/Retrieved from Facebook/An Yixuan Ann)
According to the land media "CCTV News", Zhou Zhuohua's case involving a cross-border gambling group was not only tried by a Macau court, but also by a court in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, mainland China, in 2022. After the trial, it was ascertained that Zhou Zhuohua contracted gambling halls in casinos in Macau and other places, and since 2015, he has opened a number of online gambling platforms in the Philippines and other places to conduct gambling activities, and in order to make huge profits, he used commissions and dividends as bait to lure others to act as agents, and through these agents, he organized and solicited mainland people to go to Sun City gambling halls in the mainland to participate in gambling or cross-border online gambling.
Wang Haoze, judge of the first criminal trial division of the Wenzhou Intermediate People's Court, said that the scale requirement for gambling agents in mainland China is that if each agent wants to invest in Suncity Company, the investment capital is 5 million Hong Kong dollars (about NT$19.9 million), and the monthly conversion amount, that is, the target required to be completed is 50 million Hong Kong dollars (about NT$190 million). The criminal syndicate recruited a total of 283 mainland shareholders to act as agents, so you can imagine how huge the gambling capital is. From 2015 to 2019, data seized in mainland China showed that domestic gamblers bet more than 300 billion yuan (about NT$130 million), and the amount of gambling money won was 8.7 billion yuan (about NT$38 billion).
Zhou Zhuohua established Sun City Entertainment, because he was suspected of opening a casino in the mainland, which was regarded as a serious circumstance, Zhang Ningning and others were sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison in the mainland court, and the fine was recovered, the defendant originally appealed, and the Zhejiang Provincial High Court rejected the appeal and upheld the original judgment. The report mentions "serious disruption to the order of the mainland's financial market".
Zhou Zhuohua was originally a casino tycoon, but was arrested on suspicion of opening a casino in the mainland and making huge profits from it. (Photo/CFP)
An Yixuan's husband Chen Ronglian is also suspected of illegally opening a casino in the mainland, and was allowed to come to Taiwan to live in 2020 at the end of January 2023, when he wanted to extend the period of residence, but was rejected by the Ministry of the Interior, and filed an administrative lawsuit for this dissatisfaction, which was rejected by the Supreme Administrative Court in October of the same year, and the whole case was determined.
Chen Ronglian's application for an extension of residence in Taiwan was rejected. (Photo/Retrieved from Facebook/An Yixuan Ann)