Online gambling: The arrest of a small fish

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"At that time we caught a ' small fish ', after a period of investigation, we found that there are hundreds of small fish in Guangzhou." Guangzhou Yuexiu District Public Security Bureau concerned personage December 16 to the reporter sigh.

At the beginning of this year, in the discovery of several unemployed people's accounts often appear at a time of tens of thousands of yuan large capital flow, Guangzhou City, Yuexiu District Public security organs to seize the Hong Kong residents of a representative of the 3 "small fish."

December 9, Guangzhou Yuexiu District Court for the first time to apply the "Criminal law Amendment VI" to "open a casino crime" 3 people sentenced to one to four years in prison. However, the three men received only more than 2 million yuan in the year of January 2007-January 2008 gambling.

Reporter in the interview learned that the domestic similar size of "Small Network Casino" as many as thousands of, and the scale of more than billion of the situation is also many see, this by foreign gambling sites ("lottery", gambling), the domestic agent, agents and members of the formation of the network gambling industry chain, the annual intake of gambling reached hundreds of millions of yuan.

The arrest of a small fish

Although the state Ministry of Civil Affairs, the General Administration of sports has many types of "welfare lottery", "Sports Lottery" issued, but in Guangdong, Zhejiang and other countries, the higher return of the underground network gambling industry is still expanding rapidly.

The reporter learned from the Yuexiu District Court, the sentenced defendant Bell, is born in Guangzhou Hong Kong residents, from January 2007 opened outside the "lottery" Peripheral Gambling website (www.88win.net), organized network gambling activities.

Similar to other offshore gambling websites, the perimeter site has a "general agent", "Agent", "members" and other levels of positions, the top and bottom positions between the gambling and profit amount of the settlement, "member" is responsible for receiving other people's bets, gambling profits by the "General Agent", "Agent", "member" in proportion to share.

It is reported that the beginning of 2007, the beginning of their own website "General Agent", and in June 2007, the development of the defendant in the home of the accused, such as "Agent", and the development of the accused Ajun and other people as the website "members."

January 8 This year, the Guangzhou Public security organs by the investigation of three accused arrested, the spot seized cash, passbook and crime tools computer, telephone, fax machine and other property a batch, seized on the record.

In charge of investigating the case, Yuexiu District Public Security Bureau concerned told reporters that in a short period of one year, the bell to accept betting amount of 1.18 million yuan, Labor to accept betting on more than 810,000 yuan, all of them accept betting RMB 150,000 yuan, three people from the crime profit.

Yuexiu District Court in early December 2008 after hearing that the accused Zhong, Lao, a profit-seeking for the purpose of overseas gambling sites as agents, to accept bets, three of the defendant's behavior has constituted the opening of the casino crime, of which bell, labor a serious crime plot.

It is reported that the first trial of the court sentenced to 4 years in prison, and a fine of RMB 1.18 million yuan, sentenced to 3 years of labor imprisonment 6 months, and a fine of 810,000 yuan, sentenced to Ajun imprisonment for 1 years, and a fine of 150,000 yuan, but also detained three defendants in the bank account of the remaining 1.17 million yuan gambling.

The judge in the Yuexiu District Court, who hears the case, told reporters: "This is obviously a small fish in the network gambling industry, according to our counterparts in Beijing, Guizhou and other areas to provide information, they are trial or have completed the network gambling cases, and some of the accumulated gambling scale of more than 1 billion yuan, or even more than 6 billion yuan. ”

Reporter learned that as early as in 2005 Beijing Xicheng District prosecutors indicted a suspected participation in the network of the case, a gambling network in Beijing agent Gu, using the development of more than 40 of the offline method, to carry out online betting agent business, a short six months actually amassed gambling 1.1 billion yuan.

Beijing University's China Public Welfare Lottery Research Institute found that in 2006 China due to network gambling and foreign gambling more than 600 billion yuan, equivalent to the National Lottery, lottery 15 times times the total annual issue. "In the past two years, although the figure has fallen, it remains at $300 billion, and this number will increase during every major sporting event." The institute said.

Pyramid-Structured Betting network

In order to further uncover the truth of the network gambling industry chain, the reporter landed a gambling site called Bet365, which has 2 million clients in more than 140 countries, with three pages in English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.

On its page, the reporter found that from basketball, football to tennis, hockey, and even dog racing, horse racing and other 10 sports online betting is vivid, in addition to poker, gambling games and other items betting.

According to the website, the company is known as the largest legal gaming company in the UK, whose sports betting licences are issued by the British Gaming Commission and other businesses run by licences issued by the Gibraltar government.

In addition, the site also uses a convenient and efficient system, that is, only a user name, a password and a deposit method, you can play all kinds of exciting and exciting betting and games. The site even set up a controversial Ibas (gaming Independent Arbitration Commission) for "players" involved in online betting.

This is a complete gambling website, in order to attract new users, in the setting of a minimum of 50 yuan to open the funds, but also for the new account to provide 15% of the opening bonus (maximum 500 yuan).

The home page of several European gaming groups has tried to steer gamblers into an online casino that is easier to bet on and instant pie, and once gamblers enter the field, he will struggle to extricate themselves. Entering the casino interface, this is a veritable casino, which offers more than 60 traditional gambling versions of the Internet.

A source told reporters, "These sites are mainly two categories, one is to put the server in Hong Kong or Macau's Mark six sites, the other is to put the server in Malaysia, Japan and other places of the gambling site." ”

It is understood that these gambling groups can use the odds as a lever, through a series of hedging transactions, to ensure that gamblers 100 yuan per wager, gambling groups have more than 5 yuan profit. In other words, you bet 20 times, 10 losses, 10 wins, you should not have a loss, but in these offshore gambling online betting betting, then you bet 20 times, you will lose the principal.

Wang, who was involved in online gambling during the European Cup this year, told reporters: "Starting from the beginning of this March I introduced a few people to start a few, just start to find money after the other party is very speaking credit, very soon the funds will come to account, the results continue to play down to this August has lost 1.7 million yuan, and even started some debt collection companies began to me Bizhai. ”

The reporter learned that the operation of these sites is relatively simple, and there are a number of alternative web sites, which is the most difficult to detect the public security organs, more importantly, these overseas websites often through the recruitment of "agent" approach to develop "players."

It is reported that 2005 Beijing Xicheng Police Department captured Gu although amassed gambling more than 1.1 billion yuan, but its identity is only level three banker, on top of which there are two level executives.

The 2006 Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau cracked a larger case to uncover the industrial chain of the fundamental operating mode.

Beijing Municipal Public Security Corps Action Detachment Deputy captain Jacky told reporters, "from a standard betting network structure chart, the current domestic gambling network is almost all controlled by overseas gambling companies, they first develop a large market in the territory, and then the big dealer down to the development of level two market makers, Second-tier dealer further down the level of development, but the number of more three-level market makers, by three-level dealer to contact the general gamblers, the gambling network is a pyramid structure. ”

Combat difficulty

In the case uncovered by the Beijing Public Security Bureau in 2006, by the capture of the first-grade banker Wei only in the January-February to absorb the gambling money is close to 200 million yuan, and its under the development of 6 two-level dealer, 10 three-level market makers, there are more than 10 members, and Wei can get 20% of the Republicans fee.

and other levels of market makers and members of the cost of 1%-10%, it is clear that the eventual participation in gambling money will be lost, and Wei and other market makers are stable income, in this case in the Wei a day has more than 100,000 yuan of pure income.

This black industrial chain clearly has a rich interest, but also attracted the participation of many gamblers, however, in 2005-2007, the case of consecutive cracked, the industry chain does not seem to slow the pace of expansion.

The reporter learned that, belong to the Overseas gambling Group's website to give the attractive "preferential". A gambling website said that as long as the gamblers a deposit, you can get 1500 yuan of real money chips, and as long as the login to its online casino, you can immediately get 1000 yuan of free chips.

A resident of Guangzhou, who has logged into the game, said he had taken free chips into the online casino, and several games came down, with the principal plus free chips being ransacked. and the website to prevent gamblers to use the "preferential" profit, said that must bet to buy 10 times times the number of chips and above can be withdrawn, "money as long as one into the black,".

According to the introduction, the characteristics of the network betting is that it is very covert, not good monitoring, because the domestic gambling on the impact of very strict, so many gambling companies to set up gambling sites outside the gambling site gamblers are not everyone can participate in betting on the ball.

To bet, you have to go from the big and small at all levels of the dealer to get the account number and password, and then log on to the site betting, and then the banker in accordance with the win-lose settlement gambling, so, the level of the banker and gamblers, formed a closely linked pyramid relationship.

Obviously to fight network gambling is the key to the attack on the agent, Jacky told reporters, "network gambling has often focused on the attack on the IP address of overseas sites, but because the other side often change the site IP, so this impact is not good, the role of the intermediary agent is critical, The two cases cracked in Beijing in 2005-2006 illustrate this point. ”

However, according to the provisions of the criminal law of the People's Republic of China No. 303, in order to profit for the purpose of gambling or gambling for the industry, punishable by three years of imprisonment, criminal detention or control, and a fine, in recent years in the domestic punishment for such cases, The principal of the Yunnan Tan Brothers case, which amassed gambling more than 8.6 billion yuan, was sentenced to only 8 years in prison.

Jacky said sentencing too light is also the main reason for the network gambling repeatedly banned, in addition to Tencent, the public some of the network gambling suspicion of the game to some extent also contributed to the network gambling, there is also a lack of specific online gambling or disguised gambling laws and regulations, which also made it difficult to enforce the law.

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