Asia
Chinese police crack cross-border online gambling racket
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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