Half-month talk reporter Xiong Feng/Liu Yide
The Banyuetan reporter's survey found that the current explosive growth of cross-border online gambling has resulted in an outflow of 1 trillion yuan of funds from my country each year.
Among them, many young people are attracted by illegal interests and become money laundering tools for gambling gangs.
Everything can be bet on?
A public official in Xinjiang embezzled public funds for gambling and committed suicide after owing huge sums of money; the courier brother participated in online gambling and committed suicide in Fengtai District, Beijing after losing 50,000 yuan; the owner of a car sales company in Xiamen, Fujian played online gambling and built the company Going in is not enough to pay off the debt...Currently, cross-border gambling physical casinos are shrinking, while online gambling is growing rapidly.
Gao Junyi, Director of the Operations Division of the International Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, introduced that online gambling is legal in some places outside the country. For example, there are about 60 companies that issue gambling licenses by the Philippine government, and each main license can be linked to 10 sub-licenses. Each company There is no limit to how many gambling platforms can be launched.
On cross-border online gambling platforms, in addition to traditional gambling, star divorce expectations and real-time donation figures announced by public welfare platforms are all used to start gambling.
The 2020 U.S. election has just ended, and the market for the winners of the 2024 U.S. election has already opened.
Cross-border online gambling has been developed into "everything can be gambling", that is, any random event can be used for gambling.
Due to the low threshold of cross-border online gambling and the many ways to play, a large number of people are attracted to participate in gambling. The gambling funds involved in a single case can easily cost hundreds of millions or even billions.
In 2020, the Inner Mongolia police detected a cross-border online gambling case. The platform provides 7 types of gambling games including lottery, chess and cards, and a total of nearly 80,000 people participated in gambling, with a gambling capital of more than 3 billion yuan; Henan police detected a similar case In the case, more than 54,000 people recharged and participated in gambling in just two months, with a turnover of more than 8 billion yuan.
Cross-border online gambling gangs have developed a mature and concealed operation method, cooperating with domestic money laundering gangs in the capital chain, and quickly transferring the huge wealth siphoned by gambling platforms to overseas.
Criminal groups often hire top international companies to provide security protection, and use dark web, virtual currency and other means to evade investigation.
At the 9th China Payment and Settlement Forum in September 2020, Liao Jinrong, director of the International Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, said that according to preliminary statistics, the amount of gambling funds flowing out of China each year exceeds 1 trillion yuan.
Youth reduced to cross-border online gambling "tools"
There are three main ways for cross-border online gambling group funds to go abroad, capital flow, virtual currency transactions, and cross-border acquiring.
Before gambling money leaves the country, the most important link is the injection of gamblers' gambling money. To complete this link, a new type of cybercrime method is indispensable-"run points."
The so-called "run points" refers to the illegal payment and settlement platform buying "points" (ie chips) from cross-border online gambling platforms, and then the "code merchants" will subscribe, and the "code farmers" will be recruited to provide payment QR codes. , Every time a transaction is completed, the corresponding link can get a commission.
The extremely high capital flow requirements of cross-border online gambling platforms have spawned a large number of "run points" platforms.
According to statistics, as of the end of 2020, the total number of cross-border gambling cases investigated and handled across the country is more than 14,000, and there are thousands or even tens of thousands of "run points" gangs behind each case.
Among them, a large number of participants are young people.
In a cross-border online gambling case handled by the police in Yiwu, Zhejiang, 16 minors and 10 college students were taken criminal compulsory measures for gambling, and nearly 150 suspects were arrested in the entire case.
Among them, 95% are under 30 years old.
At the end of last year, the Tongliao police in Inner Mongolia detected a very large "run points" money laundering case involving more than 5 billion yuan.
There are as many as 10,000 people involved in the case. Those who provide QR codes for collection are basically school students, students who have just graduated, and migrant workers.
Some young people even took the initiative to go offline after they tasted the sweetness.
The Shandong police seized a college student who participated in the promotion of cross-border online gambling. He was only 21 years old and made more than 9 million yuan in profits from the promotion in 7 months.
In the case of “run points” money laundering investigated by the Tongliao police in Inner Mongolia, some students or fresh graduates have turned their relatives and friends into downlines one after another, and the most one student has developed dozens of downlines.
Zhou Libin, a squadron leader of the Mall Police Station of the Public Security Bureau of Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, said that these "running points" platforms are very harmful, especially to young people who have not yet formed their values, and are easy to fall into the abyss of illegal crimes.