Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, August 10 (Reporter Zhu Guoliang, Yang Dingmiao, Chen Shengwei) Outbound gambling, arranging “local accompany” and providing chips; domestic gambling, providing casino real-time screens, telephone betting... The Nantong City Public Security Bureau of Jiangsu Province recently disclosed that they organized a cross-border In the big case of gambling, nearly a hundred entrepreneurs were "hunted" and the gambling capital exceeded 1.3 billion yuan. A number of grassroots police officers interviewed suggested that cross-border gambling must be dealt with and the key to rectification lies in cutting off the payment chain.
Nearly 100 entrepreneurs fall into the trap
"Before I met him, I never gambled for money. After I met him, the savings I had saved for most of my life were swallowed up, and the company's capital turnover also had problems, and once faced the risk of bankruptcy." Facing the policeman handling the case, the gambler Sha Mou regretted it. .
Shamou was once an entrepreneur who owned many companies in Nantong, but because of gambling, he had no human beings or ghosts. He told the police that for a period of time, gambling gangs came to his office to nuisance and demand gambling debts. He was not allowed to work during the day, and he was blocked in the hotel at night. In the end, he had no choice but to transfer 17.7% of the company's equity and 36 stores to the other party.
The "he" in Sha Mou's mouth is the first culprit in the cross-border gambling case involving the largest amount of money in Nantong police cracked so far-Shi Mou. Recently, Shi was sentenced to 16 years in prison and fined 123 million yuan for gambling, opening a casino, illegal detention, and the crime of creating disturbances.
Shi Xuan began to lend usury in rural mobile casinos. In 2005, he was wanted for a fight in a crowd and fled to Macau. During the absconding process, he registered a "leather bag company" and became the vice chairman of the Nantong Chamber of Commerce in Macau. Externally, he has shown himself as a "young entrepreneur"; privately, he has made friends with entrepreneurs and dragged them into the abyss of gambling step by step.
Cao Xinglei, deputy head of the Public Security Brigade of the Chongchuan Branch of the Nantong Public Security Bureau, said that there is evidence that Shi and his gang organized at least nearly 100 people to participate in cross-border gambling during the 11 years from 2007 to 2018. An entrepreneur like Sha Mou.
Cao Xinglei said that after leaving the country, Shi will provide these entrepreneurs with "one-stop" services, including "ground accompaniment", bargaining chips, etc.; when he returns to China, he will switch to another "face" and use detention, nuisance, etc. Various "soft violence" methods are used to collect debts, and they do not hesitate to interfere with the business operations of gambling entrepreneurs.
Over 1.3 billion yuan in gambling in 11 years
Shi and his gang organize cross-border gambling in two main ways: one is to organize personnel to go abroad to gamble, and to provide gamblers with chips and outbound services; the other is to provide real-time images of overseas casinos for domestic personnel. Place bets online and over the phone.
According to the data disclosed by Nantong Public Security Bureau, from April 2007 to May 2018, Shi and his criminal gang organized cross-border gambling by various methods, sometimes went to overseas casinos to participate in gambling, and sometimes set up gambling in domestic hotels. , And sometimes even set up gambling in the home or office of the gambler, and the total amount of gambling equivalent to RMB exceeds 1.3 billion.
According to Cao Xinglei, from 2012 to 2018, Yin, the person in charge of a construction company in Haimen, Nantong, conducted online cross-border gambling through the channel provided by a criminal group Shi, with a total gambling capital of more than 250 million yuan; another gambler, Huang, was short-term In just three months, telephone bets at home totaled 74.56 million yuan, and gamblers lost 50 million Hong Kong dollars overnight.
In the process of organizing cross-border gambling, Shi and his gang members made profits by collecting commissions, commissions, and gambling: gamblers could not bring large amounts of cash out of the country, and the handling fee for overseas consumption with credit cards was high, so Shi provided it to gamblers Gambling chips charge a commission of 1% to 2%; Shi Mou agreed with the casino to draw a certain percentage; because of the huge gambling money, some of the gang members received more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars in a day during the gambling process. .
Organize cross-border gambling, how do large sums of money go abroad? Shi's method is overseas gambling and domestic settlement. The policeman handling the case told the reporter of "Economic Information Daily" that Shi and his criminal gang first paid for the gamblers, returned to the territory and then urged, and then transferred the money out through various methods.
In order to convert gambling debts into legal loan debts, Shi will also make a false bank statement and ask the gambler to write down IOUs or loan contracts. At the same time, Shi recruited a group of personnel with previous convictions to be responsible for collecting gambling debts through violence or soft violence.
Cut off the cross-border gambling payment chain
"The Nantong case is very typical." According to the person in charge of the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department, there are two main forms of cross-border gambling. One is offline, which means organizing personnel to go to overseas casinos to gamble; the other is online, which means overseas casinos. The real-time picture of the game is transmitted to China, and domestic gamblers are then organized to place bets via the Internet and telephone. This case has both forms and lasted as long as 11 years.
Zhou Binru, head of the Public Security Detachment of the Nantong Public Security Bureau who participated in the investigation and handling of the case, said: “The bank slips alone contain three full boxes. The case files are almost one floor high. To ensure the accuracy of the data, the accounts The 16 police officers of the investigation team have a ruler to prevent mistakes when checking."
"Cross-border gambling is very harmful." Du Songhua, deputy director of the Nantong Public Security Bureau, said that such cases not only damage the gambler's personal economy, but also affect business operations, employment, social stability, and breed evil forces.
According to the police handling the case, difficulties in arresting, reviewing, and obtaining evidence are common problems in combating cross-border gambling cases. Criminals hide abroad and set up their servers abroad, while domestic gamblers, especially those entrepreneurs, are unwilling to cooperate with public security investigations and evidence collection due to personal reputation and business operations.
In recent years, my country's public security has continuously strengthened its crackdown on cross-border gambling. In February this year, the Ministry of Public Security once again deployed operations to crack down on cross-border gambling. Some grassroots police handling cases have suggested that cross-border gambling must be dealt with even more, and the key to rectification lies in the payment chain.
Take the gambling case cracked by Nantong police as an example. Although criminals use overseas gambling to settle domestically, the funds will eventually be transferred overseas. There are many ways to transfer large amounts of funds, such as the use of "fourth-party payment", but they are all inseparable from the financial payment system. This urgently requires financial departments to improve the supervision mechanism and upgrade the supervision system.