[Explanation] The Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau reported on December 23: Guangzhou police recently uncovered China's first cross-border online underground bank case for illegal exchanges.
From the end of 2019 to April 2020, the Guangzhou police found that a group developed a game online platform as an exchange channel to evade the state's foreign exchange supervision, by selling game recharge point cards to overseas customers, and committing illegal currency exchange across borders.
[Concurrent] Officer Chen, the policeman handling the case
This online platform is mainly aimed at overseas gamers, and overseas gamers playing domestic games. It has gradually developed to help overseas Chinese players, mainly for these customers, providing them with domestic third-party recharge services, so this behavior We believe that there is an act of settlement of funds, so it involves an illegal exchange. Why do we say that he is illegal? Because in this process, he converts the foreign currency received overseas into RMB in China. This behavior is illegal of.
[Explanation] As of the case, 150,000 overseas users in more than 100 countries and regions have been involved, with a total transaction amount of US$121 million, which has seriously disrupted the order of financial markets and foreign exchange management.
In August 2020, the Guangzhou police carried out operations to close the network in Guangdong, Yunnan, Liaoning and other places, achieving a full-chain attack.
During the operation, a total of 12 underground bank dens were destroyed, 52 criminal suspects were arrested, more than 5 million yuan was frozen, and a group of criminal tools such as computers, mobile phones, mobile cards and bank cards were seized.
[Explanation] According to statistics, as of the end of November, Guangzhou police had detected 3,292 economic crimes, arrested 2,264 people and arrested 257 people at large.
Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】