Guangxi cracked three mega-online gambling cases involving 800 million yuan.

The picture shows the seizure of the items involved. Photo by Zhong Xin

　　Nanning, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) The Public Security Bureau of Yulin City, Guangxi Province informed the media on the 22nd that it had cracked three mega-online gambling cases, involving 800 million yuan of gambling money and arrested 69 gambling backbones.

　　In February 2018, Gao reported to Yulin Public Security Bureau that he was gambling online, and lost 1.6 million yuan from 2014 to 2018. After investigation, the police learned that an online company set up Texas Hold ’em, superstar, super clown and other games on the game platform for players to bet on winning or losing with the virtual product "Universal Bean" as a chip, and the "Universal Bean" can be exchanged back into RMB through money dealers. The above behavior of the company has been suspected of opening a casino. After investigation, the police found out that there were 67 money dealers suspected of exchanging gambling chips and a large number of gamers suspected of gambling.

The suspect identified the scene. Photo by Zhong Xin

　　The case was reported step by step, and the Ministry of Public Security listed the case as a "September 18" project of the Ministry of Public Security, which was jointly investigated by Yulin Public Security Bureau of Guangxi and Zhengzhou Public Security Bureau of Henan Province. The task force dispatched police to Liaoning, Shandong, Hunan, Henan, Shanghai, Shanxi and other places. With the cooperation of the local police, seven key members of the gang were arrested and criminally detained, and hundreds of gamblers involved in 21 provinces including Beijing and Shanghai were found on the ground, and more than 60 accounts involved were frozen. According to statistics, the seven main backbones only recorded more than 300,000 transactions in Alipay, involving more than 500 million yuan.

　　In the work of "9.18" project police, it was found that some people in Beiliu city of Yulin used the network to organize gambling, and the amount was huge. The police conducted secret investigations for four months, issued more than 2,000 notices of inquiry and freezing, inquired about more than 6,000 bank accounts, and analyzed more than 200,000 running accounts, gradually sorting out the criminal context and fully grasping the flow of gambling funds. Subsequently, more than 200 Yulin police officers went to Guangdong and Guangxi to carry out centralized network-closing operations, arrested 25 backbone members of online gambling gangs, seized a batch of mobile phones and computers involved, and frozen more than 2,700 bank accounts with a capital of more than 65 million yuan.

　　The project police also found another clue of online gambling case in their work: the gamblers in Luchuan County of Yulin used mobile phones and the Internet to open casinos, and the amount involved was huge. Yulin police went to Nanning, Qinzhou, Guangxi, Zhanjiang, Guangdong and other places, successfully busted an online gambling gang, arrested 37 bosses, financial personnel, agents and traders behind the gambling scenes, and seized a large number of cash, cars, computers, mobile phones and other property involved. After investigation, the gang’s gambling liquidity exceeded 200 million yuan.