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Chinese police crack cross-border online gambling racket

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February 19, 2019

Niji Narayan

Chinese police crack cross-border online gambling racket

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Police in Anhui Province of China have busted a cross-border online gambling racket. They have arrested eight people for conducting the business, which is said to have involved more than 130 million yuan (around 19.2 million U.S. dollars).

The police acted after it received a tip-off from a victim who had lost more than 100,000 yuan. He had been initiated into online gambling through a group chat on QQ, a major social media platform in China.

The police conducted a probe and zeroed in on the online gambling gang in Quanzhou County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China.

Police said the online gambling platform was based in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, and the illegal business was operated by Chinese suspects in Hanoi and Guangxi.

The police nabbed eight suspects from Guangxi and provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, and Hubei. They have also seised 3 vehicles, over 20 computers and 30 cell phones.

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Niji Narayan

Niji Narayan has been in the writing industry for well over a decade or so. He prides himself as one of the few survivors left in the world who have actually mastered the impossible art of copy editing. Niji graduated in Physics and obtained his Master’s degree in Communication and Journalism. He has always interested in sports writing and travel writing. He has written for numerous websites and his in-depth analytical articles top sports magazines like Cricket Today and Sports Today. He reports gaming industry headlines from all around the globe.