Public security organs across the country strictly investigate the gambling and gambling networks, illegal capital channels and network technology platforms

Strike hard to curb cross-border gambling chaos (to build a higher level of safe China)

　　Our reporter Zhang Tianpei

　　"People's Daily" (11th edition on January 13, 2021)

　　Core reading

　　In order to continuously improve the ability to manage cross-border gambling problems, the national public security organs insisted on severe crackdowns, effective management and control, simultaneous prevention and comprehensive measures, and successfully eliminated the gambling and gambling networks and illegal funds of many large overseas gambling groups in my country. Channels and network technology platforms have cracked more than 3,500 cross-border gambling cases by the end of last year.

　　In recent years, cross-border gambling criminal activities have become increasingly harmful, causing huge economic losses to the people.

In 2020, the national public security organs insisted on severe crackdowns, effective management and control, simultaneous combating and prevention, and comprehensive measures. They cracked a number of major cross-border gambling cases one after another, and successfully eliminated the gambling and gambling networks and illegal gambling of many large overseas gambling groups in my country Funding channels and network technology platforms have effectively curbed the high incidence of cross-border gambling crimes.

　　As of the end of last year, public security organs across the country have cracked more than 3,500 cross-border gambling cases, arrested more than 75,000 criminal suspects, eliminated more than 2,260 gambling platforms, more than 980 illegal technical teams, and more than 1,160 gambling promotion platforms. , Destroyed more than 1,960 illegal payment platforms and underground banks, seized and frozen a large number of funds involved in the case.

Induce online gambling

Cross-border gambling is mostly promoted in the form of game live broadcast, which is highly concealed and difficult to supervise

　　In February last year, police in Guangming District, Shenzhen, cracked a robbery case.

After the arrest of the suspect Li, a major cross-border gambling crime was exposed behind the case.

　　Li confessed to the police that in 2019, he accidentally downloaded an online game and got caught in a gambling scam.

Police investigation found that this is a live game designed by the overseas gambling website "Fukshen Entertainment". Players will be induced by the beautiful anchor if they are not careful, click to enter the gambling program, and buy the game blindly and impulsively through the built-in different game links Currency, online gambling.

　　The police handling the case introduced: “This is not a pure online game, it is a typical scam. The backstage staff controls the gamblers by controlling the size and odds of gambling wins and losses, so that they lose their money.” After confirming that the winning money can be withdrawn, he will continue to place bets, sometimes tens of thousands of yuan at a time, and it only takes 30 seconds to finish a round." In this way, Li lost a total of less than half a year. More than 400,000 yuan was lost.

　　Unable to repay the high debt, Li had the idea of ​​crime.

According to the police handling the case, online gambling is extremely harmful, not only causing harm to the gambling participants, but also inducing other crimes.

　　The person in charge of the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau said that in this cross-border online gambling illegal and criminal activity, criminals used the popular game live broadcast format in recent years to promote illegal gambling games through beautiful anchors, greatly enhancing the concealment of online gambling. And the difficulty of supervision.

　　In order to eliminate the hazards and hidden dangers brought about by the case, the Shenzhen police were deployed in Fujian, Yunnan, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Heilongjiang, Sichuan, and Guangdong in accordance with the deployment of the Ministry of Public Security and the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department’s centralized strike work. The province dispatched nearly a hundred police forces to launch a retraction operation.

Up to now, a total of more than 30 persons involved in the crime group led by "Xia" have been arrested, tens of thousands of accounts have been frozen, hundreds of millions of funds have been frozen, and more than 2 million yuan has been seized.

Through in-depth excavation of the gambling gang’s finances, technology, promotion and related companies, the entire chain of attacks was achieved and the criminal gang was completely destroyed.

"Black Gold Channel" Concealed

Some third-party accounts involved in the case are mixed with normal transactions, and illegal transactions are difficult to grasp

　　"A company that develops the mobile app'XX Earning', through the development of a'code merchant' to upload personal payment QR codes, bank card information, etc., to provide illegal payment and settlement services for gambling websites, and collect service fees from it..."

　　In February 2020, after receiving reports from the masses, the Hunan Changdejin Public Security Bureau immediately set up a task force to conduct investigations.

Soon, a "fourth party payment platform" gradually emerged, which provided fund payment and settlement services for illegal and criminal activities such as online gambling, pornographic websites, and online private lottery.

　　According to reports, the "fourth party payment platform" refers to the use of banks, third-party payment and other legal payment institutions to build illegal funds channels without obtaining the "Payment Business License" issued by the People's Bank of China in violation of relevant national regulations. Online payment platform that provides fund payment and settlement services for illegal and criminal activities on the Internet.

　　Such platforms usually under the guise of "providing users with comprehensive online payment solutions", provide "black gold channels" for some black and gray industries, illegally carry out capital circulation, seriously disrupt the national financial order and endanger payment security.

　　"The suspects in such cases have strong anti-investigation awareness and adopt various methods to circumvent supervision." According to the investigator, the third-party payment accounts and bank accounts of the involved persons are often mixed with a large number of normal transactions, which are difficult to distinguish, and it is difficult for the police to grasp their illegal transactions. The real situation.

In addition, since the main operating company, the server, and the main controller are all overseas, investigation and arrest are more difficult.

　　The task force of the case mobilized various types of police for combined operations, and finally successfully arrested 35 suspects involved in the case, seized and frozen more than 50 million yuan of funds involved, seized more than 300 mobile phones and more than 200 bank cards, and eliminated illegal “fourth-party payment platforms” "The 8 dens have effectively eliminated the living soil for illegal and criminal activities such as online gambling, pornographic websites, and online private lottery, and maintained the social and financial order.

Keep the fight hard

Strengthen comprehensive governance and source governance to resolutely curb the chaos of cross-border gambling crime

　　On December 27, 2019, a state-owned enterprise accountant Bai (a pseudonym) surrendered to the Arshan Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia, and claimed that from November 16 to December 24, 2019, he used his position to have The 15.24 million yuan of public funds in the unit account was used for online gambling many times, and all of them were lost.

　　After preliminary investigation, it was found that the IP address of Bai's “Mantangcai” website involved in gambling was located outside the country. The analysis and qualitative analysis identified the case as a typical cross-border network casino gambling case, behind which was a well-organized cybercriminal group.

　　According to relevant case handlers of the Xilin Gol League Public Security Bureau, after retrieving and combing the capital flow of the gambling website, it was found that the relevant financial accounts of the website regularly and regularly transfer funds to the bank cards of Peng Moumou and others, and the amount ranges from several thousand yuan to tens of thousands. Yuan varies.

Peng Moumou and others are not gamblers, and have never filled gambling funds with gambling websites.

　　This cyclical and regular transfer behavior has attracted the attention of case handlers.

Through in-depth investigations, the investigators discovered that Peng was the legal person of a Xiamen Network Technology Co., Ltd.

Since the beginning of 2018, the company has been providing overseas server rental services for gambling websites such as "Mantangcai", and is responsible for the early-stage security vulnerability investigation and repair of gambling website servers and the daily maintenance in later use.

"Anyone who knows that others have committed gambling criminal activities and provides them with direct assistance such as computer networks, communications, etc., shall be treated as an accomplice in gambling crimes." The policeman handling the case said.

　　After careful deployment, the investigators arrested all 4 suspects from the company.

After interrogation, the investigators learned that the criminal gang had rented 180 overseas servers through a Shenzhen Internet Technology Co., Ltd. and a Guangzhou Internet Co., Ltd. to provide technical services for gambling websites.

The investigators followed suit and knocked down the two companies in one fell swoop, forcing more than 30 overseas gambling websites to be unable to operate and gamblers to log in.

Up to now, all 37 suspects in the case have been arrested, including 17 suspects returning from overseas, seized more than 27.3 million yuan of property involved, and frozen funds involved in the case of hundreds of millions.

　　"In the past year or so, the national public security organs have integrated various police forces and concentrated on cross-border gambling crimes in a strict and quick manner in accordance with the law, and have achieved remarkable results. Next, the national public security organs will continue to maintain a strict crackdown on high pressure, and work with relevant departments to strengthen Comprehensive management and source management, and resolutely curb the chaos of cross-border gambling crime." The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Public Security said, "The general public must recognize the deceptive nature and serious harm of cross-border gambling, and consciously resist going abroad or participating in online gambling. Report clues about cross-border gambling, and continuously improve prevention awareness and capabilities."