68 members of gambling ring imprisoned, fined
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A TOTAL of 68 people in south China’s Guangdong Province have been sentenced to prison terms of between 17 months and nine years in the country’s largest online gambling case, a court said yesterday.
From March 2008 to April last year, the gang illegally opened online casinos and took bets totaling 484 billion yuan (US$78 billion), the Liwan District people’s court in the provincial capital of Guangzhou said in a statement.
The 68 were also ordered to pay fines ranging from 50,000 yuan to 20 million yuan.
Of those convicted, 55 were found guilty of opening online casinos, seven of gambling and six of both crimes, it said.
According to prosecutors, the ring was run like a pyramid selling scheme within a circle of friends and relatives.
Gambling is illegal on the Chinese mainland, except in the form of so-called “lotteries.”
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