Follow-up of "Southern Jiangsu Underground Casino Investigation": Suzhou police searched the casino to control 18 suspects
Beijing News (Reporter Cheng Yalong Li Yang) On the evening of August 18, a reporter from the Beijing News learned from the Suzhou Public Security Bureau in Jiangsu Province that the police today carried out a concentrated arrest of persons involved in the “underground casinos” in Kunshan and Taicang. The arrests included Eighteen persons involved in the case, including the two principal offenders, seized a large number of criminal tools such as licensing machines, chips, and walkie-talkies.
Suzhou police controlled two people involved in the case in Liuhe Town, Taicang. Beijing News reporter Cheng Yalong photo
On August 18, the Beijing News reported on 4 underground casinos in Wuxi, Kunshan, and Taicang in Jiangsu Province under the title of "Survey of Sunan Underground Casinos: Set up a game for'encircling hunting' gamblers who have casinos to make more than 4 million a day." Up to 70% of the rebate is used to win over the Junket Operators working in Macau to solicit gamblers, and then "kill" the gamblers through the dealer controlling the card.
According to the relevant staff of the Suzhou police, the local police had launched an investigation before the report. On the day of the report, the Suzhou Public Security Bureau acted immediately and carried out simultaneous arrests in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Nanchang, Jiangsu, Kunshan, and Taicang. Two principal offenders of Jiangxi men Deng Mouchao and Xiong Moubing were arrested in the casino, and 16 other persons involved were arrested.
The Suzhou police said that after preliminary investigations, Deng Mouchao, Xiong Moubing and others recruited gamblers in southern Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other places through acquaintances, and went to Macau casinos to gamble in batches. Since the beginning of this year, gamblers have been unable to leave the country due to the epidemic. The gang has chosen remote locations to open underground casinos in the inter-provincial junction area of southern Jiangsu, and set up locations across the provinces to commit crimes.
In mid-July, Deng Mouchao, Xiong Moubing and others moved the casinos to abandoned factories and vacant houses in Kunshan Huaqiao, Taicang Liuhe and other places to attract gamblers from surrounding provinces and cities. A reporter from the Beijing News noted that Deng Mou was the person who led the reporter into underground casinos in Wuxi and Taicang.
The police found a large number of gambling tools in a search in Liuhe Town, Taicang. Beijing News reporter Li Yang
The police reminded: The gambling problem seriously endangers the people's property safety, corrupts social morals, and affects public order. The Suzhou police have always insisted on "playing when they are out there" and maintained a fierce offensive against illegal gambling crimes. Since the beginning of this year, they have cracked 285 criminal cases of gambling and cracked down on 1,241 criminals in accordance with the law. Here, the police urged the relevant criminals involved in the case to voluntarily surrender.