According to interviews with investigators, seven office workers ranging in age from their 20s to 40s have been arrested by the Kyoto Prefectural Police Headquarters for operating an online casino in Japan that lets people play mahjong online. Ta. This is the first time in the country that a person has been arrested for providing an online casino venue.
A total of seven people were arrested, including company employees in their 20s to 40s who run the betting mahjong site ``DORA Mahjong.''
According to investigators, from March to December last year, he is suspected of gambling for profit by having customers play mahjong online and receiving commissions.
It is believed that the company collected 10% to 15% of customers' profits as fees, and fraudulently obtained more than 2 billion yen from the site's launch in 2011 to December last year.
Online casino operators are often based overseas where gambling is legal, and this is the first time in the country that a man has been arrested on suspicion of gambling for profit for providing a casino venue in Japan.
Although the site claimed that there was no illegality, gambling with money at online casinos is now illegal in Japan, and the police are investigating the customers on suspicion of gambling.