China News Service, Chongqing, May 6 (Reporter Liu Xianglin) The reporter learned from the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau on the 6th that the Chongqing Banan police destroyed a large cross-border online gambling gang and arrested 133 suspects.
Preliminary statistics show that from 2017 to the incident, the gang’s gambling capital flowed as high as 5.6 billion yuan (RMB, the same below).
Chongqing Banan police found a clue about cross-border gambling in their work: there was a large gambling gang in Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places, and a lot of money flowed abroad during the European Cup.
Under the guidance of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Banan Police quickly set up a task force to investigate with all their strength.
After careful investigation, a cross-border gambling gang headed by Luo (male, 35 years old, from Jiangyou, Sichuan) surfaced.
The gang has a clear division of labor, using wineries, restaurants and other businesses as a cover to engage in cross-border online gambling activities, and the criminal methods are relatively concealed.
After mastering the relevant criminal evidence, the task force closed the Internet in Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou at the same time, destroyed this cross-border online gambling gang entrenched in many places in one fell swoop, and arrested 133 criminal suspects.
After review, the gang members pretended to be agents of foreign gaming companies and made illegal profits by betting on the Internet.
The gang adopts a pyramid structure, and the main suspects Luo, Zhang and Chen are the first-level agents, and a total of more than 100 second-level agents have been trained to participate in illegal operations.
Luo, the leader of the gambling gang, has been an agent of cross-border online gambling platforms since 2017, and has successively expanded two first-level agents, Zhang and Chen, so that they can conduct business independently in Sichuan and Guizhou.
During the Euro Cup from June to August 2021 alone, the gang’s gambling capital flow reached more than 1.5 billion yuan.
At present, 133 criminal suspects have been transferred to judicial prosecution, and the case is being further processed.
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