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A party who operated an illegal gambling site with a stake of 200 billion won has been arrested. Those who made tens of billions of won in profits turned out to be prepared for police tracking by buying cryptocurrencies.
This is CJB reporter Jin Ki-hoon
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In September of last year, a man was arrested by the police at a bank cash machine in Jamsil, Seoul.
It is a cash withdrawal policy by an organization that operates an illegal gambling site, and was arrested by the police after ten days of incubation.
After six months of investigation after the arrest of the withdrawal book, the full picture of the organization was revealed last month.
They operated illegal gambling sites worth KRW 220 billion in Bucheon and Jeju, Gyeonggi-do from July 2019 to January this year.
In addition, the members' stakes were used to buy accounts from several overseas gambling sites and then jump into illegal gambling.
With the secured accounts, we made a profit of at least 47 billion won by betting on the number of all cases.
It was confirmed that the proceeds were laundered using a virtual asset exchange to avoid being tracked by the police.
It was aimed at the fact that it is difficult to identify the beneficial owner of the funds as the virtual asset exchange can join with a virtual name or corporation. Prepared.
[Hyeon-Kyeong Lee / Cheongju, Cheongwon police Cyber Leader: Because you can join as many as a virtual name or corporation identified in real hard're calm, and to combine that was not easy to keep track of what that money is sown;
the police run the site chongchaek etc. 4 people are arrested and 6 people are arrested, while investigating female crimes such as additional proceeds.
(Video coverage: Kim Geun-hyuk CJB, screen provided: Cheongju Cheongwon Police Station)