Chinanews.com Baoding, December 11th (Lv Zihao and Xu Qiaoming) On the 11th, the Baoding Municipal People’s Government of Hebei Province held a press conference to report that recently, the city’s police cracked a new type of payment and settlement of gambling funds for overseas gambling websites using mobile phone bill online recharge platforms An extremely large cross-border online gambling criminal group involved in the case amounting to nearly RMB 10 billion.

　　According to Tan Zhijie, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Political Commissar of the Jingxiu District Public Security Branch of the Baoding Public Security Bureau, in early January this year, the bureau received a clue from the Hebei Provincial Public Security Department: 5 companies in Baoding City had abnormal transactions with public accounts.

After a large amount of data research and judgment, it was found that the public accounts of these five companies were suspected of major money laundering. Based on this, a special case team with the Jingxiu District Public Security Bureau as the main investigative force was established.

After 5 months of reconnaissance work, the police conducted data analysis on 63,223 bank accounts and investigated people one by one, and initially determined the flow of funds involved, the structure of the criminal gang, the means of committing the crime, and the crimes committed by Lai, Zhang, and Liu. fact.

Part of the gambling funds seized by the police in gambling dens.

Photo courtesy of the police 

　　Between July 30 and August 7, 2020, the police arrested more than 50 criminal suspects including Liu and Zhang in Chongqing, Yunnan, Chengdu and other places; on August 29 and September 16, the task force was in With the cooperation of overseas police, 7 people including Lai and Chen were arrested and escorted back to China.

　　It was found out: In February 2019, Lai and his technician Chen developed a "virtual online hall phone recharge platform" as a bridge linking gambling websites and phone recharge companies.

Lai, Zhang, the business person in charge of the phone recharge company, and Liu, the boss of the downstream phone recharge company, link the phone recharge company with the gambling website to form a recharge channel for the gambling website and use this to launder gambling funds.

As of August 1, 2020, the criminal chain involved more than 10 million mobile phone users, more than 60,000 online recharge gamblers, and illegal profits of nearly 100 million yuan.

　　At present, the case has arrested a total of 278 criminal suspects who organized and participated in online gambling at home and abroad, destroyed 24 cross-border online agency dens, fourth-party payment platform dens, and gambling dens, and frozen more than 60,000 bank accounts involved in the case.

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