This week nine people were taken under arrest alleged who are involved in an Internet circle playing an Internet professional baseball game, and were blown when the Taiwan Investigation Bureau – the CIB – took action against their operations.

The server operator was named as Huang Chun-chieh aged thirty and the indicted leader of the gang is Chou Kuo-an aged thirty seven, according to the newspaper China Today who identified those involved.

In areas of Hsinchuan City and Taipei County Chou, Huang and seven others were arrested by CIB agents cooperating with Taoyuan County Police. According to the revelations of a CIB spokesperson, the arrested men were taken to the Panchiao District Court Office.

Seventeen computer servers worth approximately four hundred thousand Taiwanese dollars and other computer hardware was appropriated by the police, including account data of the subscribers to the gambling Web site.

The CIB received a tip several days before that a gambling gang accepting each week unlawful wagers of tens of millions of Taiwanese dollars. Running a diverse number of Internet sites, the gang ran unlawful gambling sites for sports, and with a lucid differentiated four-layer system of management made its operations beginning from the firm's main office to agents responsible for regional and local gambling.

Across the island, the different agents were responsible for the enlistment of new subscribers, who by means of the agents could place their wagers. The agents based their earnings on commission activities. Beforehand the CIB had been told about a number of the gang's unlawful sports gambling sites, for example: Big Sports, E Post Office and Dr. B, exploiting the Taiwanese born Wang Chien-ming the popular Yankee baseball pitcher, to operate the illegal betting concern.   

The gang received a minimum of ten million Taiwanese dollars weekly in gambling money according to the indications of the primary investigations.

To prevent the gang being aware of police probing, a lawful company situated in Hsinchuan was used for installing the computer servers. 

Chou, the CIB claims, has been involved in and has a long record of crooked dealings. The previous September saw the inception of the gambling activities.

Posted on: June 14, 2007

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