Betting swoop nets a fortune
Source: Xinhua |
June 14, 2010, Monday
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THE Ministry of Public Security said yesterday it would crack down on online soccer gambling during the World Cup and those caught faced severe penalties.
As of Saturday, nationwide police forces had cracked 740 online gambling cases, arrested more than 3,600 suspects and confiscated 700 million yuan (US$102 million) in funds.
Of the arrested, more than 180 were linked to gambling organizations in Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and the Philippines.
An illegal cross-boundary gambling syndicate was smashed by a Hong Kong-Shenzhen joint police operation on Saturday with 70 people arrested and a record seizure of more than HK$100 million (US$12. 82 million) in betting slips, HK officers said yesterday.
An officer in charge of Hong Kong's operation said 25 people were arrested in HK, while 45 were taken into custody in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, including the core member of the syndicate, in the crackdown.
Superintendent of HK's Organized Crime and Triad Bureau, Man Tat-shing, said the total amount of betting records from the joint action was more than HK$100 million, the biggest amount seized in a single case on record.
HK police arrested 19 men and six women, aged between 34 and 67, for engaging in bookmaking and money-laundering offenses.
Man said the crackdown in Shenzhen saw 45 people arrested including three HK residents and HK$47 million in betting records.
Initial investigations revealed that the syndicate was based on the Chinese mainland .
As of Saturday, nationwide police forces had cracked 740 online gambling cases, arrested more than 3,600 suspects and confiscated 700 million yuan (US$102 million) in funds.
Of the arrested, more than 180 were linked to gambling organizations in Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and the Philippines.
An illegal cross-boundary gambling syndicate was smashed by a Hong Kong-Shenzhen joint police operation on Saturday with 70 people arrested and a record seizure of more than HK$100 million (US$12. 82 million) in betting slips, HK officers said yesterday.
An officer in charge of Hong Kong's operation said 25 people were arrested in HK, while 45 were taken into custody in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, including the core member of the syndicate, in the crackdown.
Superintendent of HK's Organized Crime and Triad Bureau, Man Tat-shing, said the total amount of betting records from the joint action was more than HK$100 million, the biggest amount seized in a single case on record.
HK police arrested 19 men and six women, aged between 34 and 67, for engaging in bookmaking and money-laundering offenses.
Man said the crackdown in Shenzhen saw 45 people arrested including three HK residents and HK$47 million in betting records.
Initial investigations revealed that the syndicate was based on the Chinese mainland .
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