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Gambling dens in the Philippines are specially designed to attract Chinese gamblers to gamble on the Internet, with nearly 1 million registered members online in China, and the flow of funds involved in the case exceeds 725.5 billion yuan! Recently, the police in Luojiang District, Deyang City, disclosed a particularly large cross-border online gambling case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, in which a total of 93 criminal suspects were arrested and more than 2,000 yuan of stolen money was seized. Among them, the first batch of 50 suspects have been transferred to the court for public trial on suspicion of opening a casino.
Surprisingly, the loss of money in small online gambling leads to a large cross-border gambling group
Xiao Yuan (pseudonym) is an office worker in Luojiang District, Deyang City, and one day in May 2023, a link to a gambling website called "Kakawan" accidentally popped up on the Internet. "Click in, and the customer service will contact me to ask if I want to play, recharge 100 yuan and get 200 yuan." Xiao Yuan found that the website could not be registered independently, and it was impossible to recharge directly online, so the recharge amount had to be transferred to the designated bank card. There are a variety of ways to play on the website, including baccarat, chess and card games, slot machines, etc., and baccarat is dealt by live dealers. At the beginning, there were still losses and wins, and most of the later ones were lost, Xiao Yuan later realized that something was wrong, and felt that the gambling platform was operating, so he came to the public security organ to report.
With the in-depth investigation of the police, the police found that in addition to Xiao Yuan, there were also Zhao, Zhang, Zhang and others who gambled on the website, and the amount of money lost ranged from thousands to tens of thousands. After the occurrence of the case, the Luojiang police attached great importance to it, and after preliminary research and judgment, they promptly reported the clues to the Deyang City Public Security Bureau, and the Deyang City Bureau dispatched various police types, counties and cities to set up a special case team to carry out in-depth investigation and handling of the case, and reported the case to the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department and the Ministry of Public Security step by step. On August 4, 2023, the case was listed as a case for supervision by the Ministry of Public Security.
"The Kakawan gambling website is mainly to attract gamblers in China to participate in gambling, involving a large number of people and large amounts, and some gamblers have a bank turnover of tens of millions, winning and losing millions. Yang Boyu, the police officer who handled the case, told reporters that the gambling website that Xiao Yuan and others came into contact with was only one of the three portals of an entertainment city in the Philippines, mainly by opening a live video casino on the Internet to attract domestic personnel to gamble online, and the gang had nearly 50,000 agents in China alone, with a total of nearly 1 million registered members and a total betting amount of about 725.5 billion yuan.
Acting for the tiger and going abroad to work became a member of a gambling syndicate
Through the process of investigating the flow of gambling-related funds, the task force successfully locked down 2 precise dens of gambling gangs abroad, 1 "domestic running platform", and successively sorted out more than 1,000 bank cards involved in the case. After that, after in-depth investigation and analysis, the police found that there were nearly 300 people involved in the gang, and the operation and management personnel were all overseas, and the identities of a number of high-level members of the gang were ascertained, and a complete cross-border gambling crime ecology gradually surfaced.
In recent years, the gang has been posting information online to recruit people in China under the guise of high-paying hotel waiters, cooks, cleaners and many others. "The salary posted on the website is very attractive, with a monthly salary of about 15,000 yuan. Zhang Ji, a police officer handling the case, said that many people couldn't resist the temptation of high salaries to sign up for jobs. Under the operation of domestic labor agencies, they embarked on the journey of working abroad, dreaming of making a lot of money easily, but they did not know that they had embarked on the road of breaking the law and committing crimes.
After a period of training, these people have become the core members of the gambling group to expand the business in the Chinese market, and in the face of high salaries, these people will do whatever it takes to develop the gambler base to improve performance. Many domestic gamblers win small first and then lose big, and finally out of control. Some people lose their fortunes, some people do not hesitate to borrow online loans to owe huge debts in order to turn over their money, and some gamblers have been developed into domestic agents, developing their relatives and friends into their own downlines. "Some agents involved in the case have a turnover of 40 or 50 million yuan, and they make a profit of 4 to 5 million a year," Yang Boyu said. Under this operation, this cross-border gambling group is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more gamblers are participating. Some of the Chinese employees working in gambling groups have become high-income groups, which has attracted more people to go abroad.
Thunderball, the police cut off the black hand of online gambling in one fell swoop
The special case group consulted with the judicial, entry-exit, and other departments, and quickly formulated the guidelines of "eliminating domestic agents, punishing domestic employees, cutting off recruitment channels, and cutting off the capital chain" and "quick investigation, quick crackdown, and quick trial." In June 2023, the people involved in the case entered the peak of returning to China for vacation, and the task force strengthened the trajectory locking of those who returned from the Philippines. On June 15, after fully ascertaining the whereabouts of the returnees involved in the case, the special case group organized police forces to go to more than 20 provinces, including Henan, Hebei, Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi, and Jiangxi, to carry out centralized arrest operations with the assistance of local police.
In the five-month network war, the police arrested a total of 93 criminal suspects, seized a large number of mobile phones and bank cards involved in the case, and seized more than 2,000 yuan of stolen money. The rest of the people involved in the case are still being pursued by the task force. Not long ago, the Luojiang District People's Court of Deyang City held a trial of the first batch of 50 criminal suspects, and the verdict will be announced at a later date.
Cross-border gambling and online gambling are often controlled by criminals to win or lose, and it seems to be live broadcast, but in fact it is also a routine of "ten gambles and ten losses" and "ten gambles and ten cheats" in online gambling. The broad masses of the people should clearly understand the harms and consequences of gambling, consciously resist gambling, and stay away from gambling.