China News Agency, Hefei, August 4 (Reporter Zhao Qiang) The reporter learned from a press conference held by the Anhui Provincial Public Security Department on the 4th that the provincial public security department recently organized the province's public security organs to carry out a centralized collection of cross-border gambling cases.
During the operation, the provincial public security organs cracked 58 cross-border gambling cases and arrested 844 criminal suspects.
According to Luo Zhiyong, director of the Exit and Entry Administration of the Anhui Provincial Public Security Department, during the operation, Anhui public security organs dispatched more than 2,400 police officers to more than 20 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in China to carry out 155 arrest operations and arrested 844 criminal suspects. ; cracked 58 cross-border gambling cases and 62 related derivative cases; destroyed 61 online gambling platforms, and destroyed 93 "black and gray" criminal gangs that provided funds, technology, promotion and other services for cross-border gambling, More than 93 million yuan (RMB, the same below) of the funds involved in the case were seized and frozen.
According to reports, this centralized network collection operation is the first time since Anhui Province launched the special work to combat cross-border gambling, which has severely damaged the online gambling and gambling network of Chinese citizens by overseas gambling criminal gangs.
On October 27, 2021, the public security organs in Lu'an City, Anhui Province obtained clues about an overseas website suspected of opening an online casino.
After further investigation, it was found that the website is a comprehensive gambling website mainly based on lottery tickets. It organized domestic personnel to conduct online gambling by developing agents in China, and the accumulated funds involved in the case amounted to 8 billion yuan.
After more than 6 months of meticulous investigation, the case has met the conditions for solving the case. During the centralized network collection operation, the Lu'an City Public Security Bureau arrested 74 criminal suspects, destroyed 6 "running points" gangs, and froze and seized the funds and assets involved in the case. A total of more than 12 million yuan.
The case is currently under further investigation.
Luo Zhiyong said that at present, the province's crackdown on cross-border gambling has achieved phased results, but many cross-border gambling gang fund owners, shareholders, and executives are still lurking abroad, and they are constantly shifting criminal dens, changing criminal models, and resisting the investigation of public security organs. , do everything possible to bet on Chinese citizens.
"In the next step, the province's public security organs will continue to maintain a high-pressure crackdown situation."
It is reported that since the beginning of this year, the public security organs of Anhui Province have launched a fierce offensive against cross-border gambling crimes.
As of the end of June, Anhui public security organs had investigated 507 cross-border gambling cases, arrested 1,951 criminal suspects, transferred 895 criminal suspects for prosecution, destroyed 205 online gambling platforms (physical casinos), destroyed funds, technologies, There were 224 "black and gray" platform gangs such as promotion, and 302 million yuan of funds involved in the case were seized and frozen.
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