Recently, about 600 Chinese were convicted on the basis of connections with online gambling operations. The investigation has shown that operations stemmed from the Taiwanese gambling group which starting from the last March was associated with mainland criminals. Heavy sums of 13 billion yuan were laundered on a monthly basis, as was revealed by the East China's Fujian Province.
Government officials and three people from Taiwan Province were just part of seventy suspects captured by the policemen. On December 20 province-wide operation, where 104 Internet gambling sites were rummaged, 140 computers were confiscated and 131 suspects were seized, an involvement with several coastal cities distributing football lotteries was detected, according to a bureau source.
Bureau chief, Chen Youcheng said that large sums of money were wired overseas, while websites displayed foreign football game schedules featuring the odds and the anticipated outcomes in order to entice more and more bettors onto the virtual gambling reality. The province is not yet vacated from the Fujian security forces that are expected to tackle every online gambling den found.
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| Source: gamblingsmart news writer
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Wednesday, 2 February 2005 |
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