1.6 billion yuan involved! Heilongjiang and Jilin police cracked huge cross-border gambling cases

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 25 -

　　Xinhua News Agency reporters Xiong Feng and Zhai Xiang

　　On weekends, you can travel abroad by charter flights and stay in high-end hotels, free of charge for transportation, board and lodging.

What's the mystery behind this seemingly "pie in the sky" trip?

　　In 2020, the police in Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province discovered clues during their work. Several men were suspected of organizing citizens of our country to participate in gambling activities in the "Crystal Tiger Palace" Casino in Primorsky Krai in the name of tourism, and their entry and exit records were unusually frequent.

　　According to various channels such as verifying entry data and reporting by the masses, the police in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces carefully investigated and collected evidence, and a cross-border gambling criminal gang with a tightly organized structure and a complete "industrial chain" emerged.

　　It is reported that the cross-border gambling criminal group contracted casino VIP lounges, linked with domestic travel agencies, and led the way through "brokers" acquaintances, specifically recruiting Chinese citizens for gambling and gambling. The gambling capital involved exceeded 1.6 billion yuan. The amount, amount, and area are extremely rare.

"There are not a few people who have lost three to five million yuan."

　　More than ten years ago, Ji gave up his career as a taxi driver in Changchun and went to work abroad.

He was engaged in a tour group and learned about the huge profits of the gambling industry from his customers, and soon turned into a casino broker.

At the time of the incident, Ji had become one of the shareholders of the "Crystal Tiger Palace" casino, but he had also lost his savings for many years in the process of "gambling to support gambling", and even lost 35 million yuan in one day.

　　Most of the criminal suspects involved in this case are addicted to gambling. In order to avoid domestic attacks, they have become frequent visitors of overseas casinos and have become acquainted with casino operators over time.

　　Han Xuedong, head of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Public Security Bureau of Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province, introduced that some of the suspects are doing business in the country and have a certain economic foundation. After discussing with the casino operator, the idea of ​​chartering the gambling hall was born, and a good partner was soon implemented. .

The status has gradually increased from participating in gambling, to earning “head fees” by gambling, and then to participating in equity operations.

　　Participants who gambled all the year round and lost all their property, relying on borrowing and cheating to participate in gambling, were soon attracted by the shareholders of these chartered gambling halls and became brokers recruiting Chinese citizens to participate in gambling abroad, and they received "commissions" to support them by gambling. bet.

　　"In this case, there are not a few people who lost three to five million yuan, and a real estate developer is on the verge of bankruptcy." said Gong Zhaofei, deputy director of the Nadanbo Police Station of the Dongfeng County Public Security Bureau in Jilin Province.

Thousands of pages of bank gambling personnel spread across the country

　　In this transnational crime, in order to evade investigation and crackdown, the criminal group regularly destroys fund accounts and replaces working mobile phones.

During the investigation and evidence collection, the task force found thousands of bank cards involved in the case, and tens of thousands of pages were printed out by the relevant bank records. The gambling personnel involved in the case were scattered across the country.

　　The task force combed through the massive amount of capital flow information, obtained key evidence from the clues left by the criminal gang, verified the gambling funds involved in the case, improved the evidence chain, and gradually determined the organizational structure of the criminal gang.

　　In 9 months, the joint task force of Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces moved to 12 provinces in China, arrested 142 criminal suspects, investigated and collected 2,963 gambling personnel, and transferred 75 criminal suspects to prosecutors for the crime of “opening a casino”. 4,416 bank cards involved were seized.

　　The investigators found that most of these people who went abroad to participate in gambling were organized by six travel agencies in the country, and they took chartered flights or traveled back and forth by land.

One of the legal persons of a travel agency directly invited gambling and gambling, and called the team of gambling personnel as a "business group", charging far higher fees than the "ordinary group", and was eventually sentenced to two years and six months in prison and a fine of RMB 500,000. Yuan, the qualification of the travel agency shall be revoked.

Stop the rampant momentum of cross-border gambling

　　On July 5, 2020, Changchun Longjia Airport.

The main criminal of the criminal group, Wu Moumou, was about to board a plane and flee, but was arrested on the spot by the police.

At this time, it was only 20 minutes before the flight started boarding.

　　Wu Moumou was successively employed by overseas game machine manufacturers and casino investor companies, and was appointed by the company as a casino manager.

　　Che Yongqiang, President of the Criminal Tribunal of the Dongfeng County People’s Court, believes that in order to expand the casino business, Wu XX rushed to Changchun City to recruit personnel to contract the gambling hall in Russia, and discussed issues such as equity participation in the gambling hall and sharing, and clearly stated that he wanted to Ask my citizens for gambling.

The factual evidence of Wu Moumou's increase in the number of customers and the amount of funds involved in gambling has been fixed by the case handlers.

Wu Moumou was finally sentenced to seven years in prison for the crime of opening a casino and a fine of 10 million yuan.

　　It is reported that all the persons involved in the case have been arrested.

　　Since 2020, the Ministry of Public Security has deployed national public security organs in conjunction with relevant departments to carry out special work on cracking down on cross-border gambling.

As of the end of October 2021, public security organs across the country have investigated and handled more than 30,000 cross-border gambling cases, arrested more than 160,000 criminal suspects, eliminated more than 5,100 gambling platforms and more than 2,800 gambling promotion platforms, and punished them for education. A large number of gambling personnel successfully eliminated illegal capital channels such as gambling and gambling networks and money laundering in our territory by many large overseas gambling groups, and the rampant momentum of cross-border gambling was effectively curbed.

　　From the legal level, my country has also increased penalties.

According to Qu Xinjiu, a professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, the Criminal Law Amendment (11) passed in December 2020 increased the penalty allocation for the crime of opening a casino, and at the same time added the crime of organizing participation in gambling outside of the country, organizing Chinese citizens to participate in the country ( If the amount of gambling outside the country is huge or there are other serious circumstances, the punishment will be based on the crime of opening a casino, and the punishment for organizing cross-border gambling will be more specific and specific.

　　The problem of gambling corrupts the social atmosphere, breeds illegal crimes, and directly endangers the safety of the people's property.

In recent years, criminals have used overseas entity casinos and cross-border online gambling platforms in neighboring countries and regions to engage Chinese citizens in gambling and gambling activities. The situation of cross-border gambling crimes is severe and complicated, which seriously endangers our economic security, social stability, and social stability. The image of the country and the legitimate rights and interests of the people.

　　The work of banning gambling requires the joint efforts of the whole society. There will be no pie in the sky. It is hoped that the general public will recognize the deceptive nature and serious harm of cross-border gambling, consciously stay away from cross-border gambling, and actively report clues about the case.