China Arrests 600 People Involved in Online Gambling

Filed in archive Gambling General by jo on January 20, 2005

In a huge clampdown by the Chinese Authorities recently, 600 people - both users and organisers - have been arrested in China, after investigating a Taiwanese based company. OVer $60 million is involved and $3 million seized.

The arrests concern both online casinos and online sportsbooks and according to China Daily an entire gambling scheme has been smashed

Preliminary investigation shows that at least 37 local gamblers have connections with Gu and they bet on different kinds of soccer matches worldwide, such as the Italian Serie A and the Football Association Premier League of England. ...Money for online gambling is mostly sent through credit cards such as Visa or through wire transfers....The data on the computers indicate that the group's gamblers had probably plunged 1.1 billion yuan (US$133 million) in gambling during the past six months, according to the Beijing Daily. Read Link

Overseas gambling, illegal lotteries and online gambling are the chief targets but the authorities are keen to distinguish between traditional entertainment activites such as the popular Mah Jong and illegal gambling

Related Entries:

Older People at Risk Gambling - 19 January 2005
China Captures over 700,000 Gambling Suspects in 2005 - 15 July 2005
SURGE IN ONLINE GAMBLING - 11 April 2007
ONLINE GAMBLING NEWS AND TIPS - 28 April 2007
Las Vegas Gets More Involved With Online Gambling - 09 May 2008

« Older People at Risk Gamb... | Main | Bookies Lays Bets on Osca... »

Permalink: China Arrests 600 People Involved in Online Gambling

Tags: gambling poker

Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/4664

Addthis

Ask

Blinklist

del.icio.us

Digg

Fark

Facebook

Google

Lycos

Ma.gnolia

Mr Wong

Netscape

Netvousz

Newsvine

StumbleUpon

Slashdot

Tailrank

Technorati

Wink

Yahoo

Vote for China Arrests 600 People Involved in Online Gambling:

Currently 6.00/10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Rating: 6.00 out of 2 vote(s) cast.

Add your response to China Arrests 600 People Involved in Online Gambling:

Name: *

Email: (will never be shown)*

URL:

(* marked fields are required)

Notify me if more comments appear?

Subscribe to The Gambling Weblog newsletter? (Newsletters are sent out weekly).

Remember me

Security Code: *
(Please help us to sort out spam.)

Please enter your comment here: (Sorry, no HTML is allowed - URLs will be made clickable automatically if you add http:// to your URL.)

We welcome your comments, however all comments are moderated. Offensive or off-topic comments will be deleted and not displayed.

Share It

Use the search to look for other interesting posts

Contributors (Last 90 days)

Stephen Lunn (15)
Creative Weblogging (1)

This site has 970 entries and is powered by Creative Weblogging since November 2004.

Our Editors recommend

Disclaimer

Some of the contents of this site are protected Creative Weblogging Inc. 2004-2010.

Check out our Sponsored Blogs!

Business Computer Blog (UK)

Are you interested in writing a blog in our network?

See which positions are currently open.

Testimonials

It's only the second time I read your blog, but I find very interesting and will keep reading every time something good comes up. happy new year to you too.