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Buy private lotteries to “paint cakes” for me, but get gambling criminals “pumping”
Guangdong Zhanjiang Police Detected Extraordinary “July 12” Cross Border Online Gambling Case Involving 38 Billion Funding
□ Our reporter Deng Xinjian, Dong Fanchao, Deng Jun
Money from housewives grocery shopping, cigarette money from the elderly … Under the blink of the agent of the cross-border gambling criminal gang, “small money can bring big rewards”, many people spend one or two yuan in “gambling” for themselves when nothing is wrong. “Draw a cake” to buy hope, but let the members of the gaming criminal gang win “bombs”.
A few days ago, the Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province Public Security Bureau, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Ministry of Public Security and the Guangdong Province Department of Public Security, successfully resolved the gambling case in extraordinarily large cross-border line “7 · 12”, penetrated deep, cut money and blood, and dealt a heavy blow to rectify the border crossing. Internet gambling crimes cut off the channels for large amounts of funds to flow abroad through “underground banks.”
So far, 387 suspected criminals have been involved in the second centralized network harvesting operation and the subsequent cases of the extraordinarily extensive cross-border online gambling case of “July 12”. Public security organs have arrested 287 criminals under the law, 33 people have been persecuted online and 245 arrested. 222 people have been transferred for processing and hundreds of millions of yuan in funds and assets have been frozen.
The severe crackdown on gambling gradually moved to the internet
Zhanjiang is a large city with a population of more than 10 million, with ten counties and districts under its jurisdiction, with a rural population as a mainstay. In the early years, the large number of police gambling in rural areas was greatly reduced after the crimes and hurricanes, but online gambling showed an increasing trend.
In July 2018, when the Zhanjiang police faced a police fight, they discovered that the suspect was involved in online gambling. The police followed the investigations, excavated and expanded the line, and discovered a gambling group headed by Leizhou citizens in Zhanjiang city, which established an illegal gambling platform on an overseas Internet server and vigorously developed the players nationals to carry out private lottery betting activities.
After filing and investigating the case, the police found that the gang involved a great deal of money and complicated circumstances, so they formed a “7 · 12” task force to carry out the investigations. After further analysis and judgment, the task force found that the cross-border gambling group was mainly led by Huang, Chen, Xu, etc., who used more than 20 illegal gambling websites, remotely controlled national level, administered and operated abroad and developed at the national level. Players make bets online.
Players with a low betting threshold “Play on the go”
According to the police handling the case, the cross-border gambling group has established an organizational structure in the form of a six-layer pyramid of “director” – “majority shareholder” – “shareholder” – “general agent” – “agent” – “member “. From a “large shareholder” to a “member” such as a closed-loop gaming group, operate independently, manage hierarchically, and recruit offline. Only “members” can bet, and the level of “agent” or higher is the management level, and the participation percentage and commission rate are agreed level by level.
According to investigations, the cross-border gambling group has 3 members at the “director” level, 3 administrators and website maintainers, more than 30 accountants, more than 60 members at the “principal shareholders” level, and more than 400 “shareholders” or less. Members and people involved are all over the country.
Since the group started betting with reference to the public lottery, there was no problem with some gambling websites setting their own odds, which attracted many players to participate. “They mainly refer to the usual lottery draw time and the results of the ‘Seven Star Lottery’ and the ‘Vietnam Hour Lottery’ for receiving bets online. Some draw intervals are only 5 minutes and all the day is drawn up to 256 times, allowing players to bet on the go. Although the threshold for the amount of bets is particularly low, the ‘play small and large’ mentality has caused a great deal of ‘small investment. ‘The accumulation of sand in a tower made the amount of bets on the gaming platform enormous. ” The police officer handling the case said that from the investigation to the case’s first time. During the closing period, the total monthly bets on the cross-border gambling group’s “subsidiary” gaming platform was approximately 800 million to 5 billion. yuan.
Shareholder Agent Status Staggered and Developed Together
“More than 20 gaming platforms and more than 600 main people involved in the case.” Police handling the case said that when the gang ditched, it started with brothers, sisters, family, friends and classmates, “knowing the basics, having a high degree of trust and developing together.”
To prevent attacks by public security bodies and achieve the purpose of “sharing resources and maximizing profits”, the “majority shareholder” of the cross-border gambling group will act as the representative of the “director” for multiple gambling websites and, at the same time, he will hire secondary agents from parallel game groups. The account, according to the water level of the website, provides different gambling websites for offline betting. “On more than 20 platforms, shareholder proxy identities are intertwined and virtual identities are used online, making it difficult for the police to detect and resolve cases.”
Not only that, the gang also frequently replaced the dens. “The ‘director’ of this cross-border gambling group carries out remote control in China, and the management team operates overseas. Most of the members above the ‘general agent’ rent private houses as gambling dens in remote areas. This makes it difficult for the police to carry out investigations and increases arrests. Difficulty. “
Due to the strong conscience against criminal investigation, gambling websites and bank cards used for transfers are often replaced. The task force police are persistent, clinging to the two main lines and not letting go. They collected 300 million pieces of data for in-depth and detailed analysis and investigation, in order to understand the organizational structure of the cross-border gaming group and the identity of the individuals involved. , Role, amount involved and law of commission of the crime.
Gambling crimes put an unbearable burden on the family
After fully understanding the key evidence, such as the organizational structure of the cross-border gambling group, the identity of the people involved, the status of the role, the amount involved, the law of committing the crime, etc., the working group of the Zhanjiang City Public Security Bureau drew up a comprehensive and detailed action plan for the arrest, questioning and surveillance.
Since the “director” of the cross-border gambling group, Huang Mou opened a casino abroad, he often conducts activities abroad and only returns home by accident, and his stay is only a day or two. To this end, the task force conducted many analyzes on him and mastered the law of his return.
Under the unified command of the Ministry of Public Security and the Public Security Bureau of Guangdong Province, the Zhanjiang City Public Security Bureau organized two centralized arrest operations. The city’s public security organs dispatched more than 2,000 police officers to various locations, including the main suspect in the case, Chen 387 people involved in the case, including Mo Ting and Xu Mo Yao, were arrested and brought to justice. . “Director” Huang was also arrested and brought to justice on the day of the operation, easing pressure on overseas activities.
At the same time, the task force police also implemented a “one-click” freeze of more than 4,000 bank accounts involved in the case, and successfully froze 4,038 bank accounts in less than two hours, freezing the funds involved in the case. for hundreds of millions of yuan. It exceeded the expected objective of the operation and played a very important role in the work of “breaking money and blood”, reaching a successful conclusion in detecting this huge case of cross-border online gambling.
However, being suspected of gambling and organizing games of chance has placed an unbearable burden on the family. Many people began to participate in the game and gradually became agents and shareholders.
Deng, 29, is already “disobedient” in the eyes of his first-grade daughter. He borrowed hundreds of thousands of yuan to bet on behalf of running a small business in six months, and also acted as an agent to place bets for some players. He has been arrested by the prosecution for the crime of opening a casino. Although he has been released on bail pending trial, he cannot go to work and some people come in to collect debts every day. The 60-year-old father had to work as a farmer to support the family, and his wife had to go out to work to help pay off the debt.
Also due to “agent” Wang who participated and organized the game, in addition to owning a debt, Wang lost his job after being released on bail. He could only earn a living from odd jobs. The originally loving couple now fight at every turn.
The person involved in the case said that “repentance is out of reach”, behind the financial burden of the family. This lesson is not without depth.
