Recently, after 9 months, the Beijing Railway Police moved to 11 cities in 6 provinces and successfully cracked a huge cross-border online gambling case. The funds involved in the case amounted to more than 36 billion yuan, and 56 suspects were arrested. More than one person seized 75 mobile phones, 191 bank cards, 17 computers, and 20 POS machines involved in the case.
At present, 38 persons involved in the case have been transferred for prosecution.
On March 10, 2021, the police from the Beijing Railway Station Police Station discovered during an inspection that a woman in the Internet cafe on the second floor was engaged in illegal online gambling activities, and immediately stepped forward to inquire about the situation.
The woman said that after she transferred the money to the person on the mobile phone, the money was charged into this (gambling account), and she did not know how it was charged.
Li Chunda, Deputy Head of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Beijing Public Security Division of the Beijing Railway Public Security Bureau, said that after police investigations, the server of this website was set up outside the country, mainly to avoid domestic supervision and investigation.
At the same time, there are special personnel to provide 24-hour customer service, and to publish advertisements on the Internet to attract gamblers to gamble.
Then they also collect gambling funds by purchasing a large number of payment accounts, and then in order to hide the true identity of this gambling website and their location.
After several months, the special case team successively arrested the gangs of Yang and others who provided payment accounts for overseas gambling criminal gangs in Jincheng of Shanxi, Changzhi of Changzhi, and Liaocheng of Shandong.
At the same time, a criminal gang of 7 people including Su Mou who specialized in fund withdrawal for overseas gambling gangs was destroyed.
By sorting out the various payment accounts of the gang, it was found that there were more than 160 bank accounts that provided gambling capital circulation, and the total amount of money involved in the case was more than 36 billion yuan.
On August 31, 2022, the last two persons involved in the case were escorted back to Beijing by the Beijing Railway Police.
At present, 38 persons involved in the case have been transferred for prosecution, and the case is being further processed.
(Produced by Zhang Nan, Pang Helei and Jiao Weikai, Wang Jiayi's video is sourced from Beijing Railway Public Security Bureau)
Responsible editor: [Liu Pai]