China News Service, Jiaxing, December 23 (Zhang Yudi and Chu Zhiqiang) During the World Cup in Qatar, guessing the results of the game while enjoying the gluttonous feast is undoubtedly a must-have entertainment for fans.

However, some criminals have used the World Cup to conduct illegal gambling activities, turning the "World Cup" into a "world tragedy".

  The reporter learned from the Public Security Bureau of Haining City, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province on December 23 that since the start of the World Cup, the Haining police have also stepped up the collection of clues about illegal and criminal behaviors of gambling.

And at work, I found that some people released a lot of World Cup outside betting information, and conducted betting activities through mobile APPs.

  After preliminary investigation, the case involved huge gambling funds and many people involved.

For this reason, the Haining police attached great importance to it and immediately set up a task force to carry out a comprehensive investigation.

After multiple police operations, the police quickly locked the criminal gang that operated the gambling app.

  On December 14, the police launched a unified arrest operation against the gang in Haining, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Huangshan, Xuancheng, Anhui and other places, arresting 17 suspects in total.

A number of items involved in the case, such as mobile phones, computers, and USB shields, were also seized at the scene.

  After investigation, since 2021, the criminal suspects Ge and Ma have entrusted others to develop a gambling app for illegal benefits, and quoted the odds and gameplay of sports lottery, and through promotion, solicited gamblers to gamble in the app , the accumulated gambling funds involved in the case amounted to more than 90 million yuan (RMB, the same below).

During the World Cup in Qatar alone, the gambling turnover reached more than 10 million yuan.

  "During each World Cup, there will always be criminals taking advantage of this opportunity to engage in gambling activities and illegally profit from it, so our police are also paying close attention to it and concentrating on investigation." The police from the special case team of Haining Public Security Bureau introduced the case.

  Most of the gamblers lost all their money in this gambling, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of yuan, and as many as hundreds of thousands of yuan.

Wang Moumou came across the promotion link of the gambling APP while watching the short video, contacted the "promoter" to get the invitation code, downloaded the APP, and participated in the World Cup gambling activities in the APP, losing several thousand yuan.

  At present, 17 people, including Ge and Ma, have been taken criminal coercive measures by the Haining police in accordance with the law due to the crime of opening a casino, and the case is still under further investigation.

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