By distancing immoral criminals from the streets, the Chinese government is endeavoring greatly to take responsibility over its citizens. Keeping their people secure from online crooks is now their greatest twenty first century problem. It’s so simple to persuade the most gullible with false promises of wealth via emails. In regard to the enforcement of laws for internet gambling in this huge country, Chinese authorities have lately been getting very serious. Xianning City’s Chinese Police Chief declared that his men have recently stopped six main gambling centers from operating. The outlawed gambling group is now considered to be deeply damaged by the police actions. Close to the confiscation of one hundred million dollars and twenty arrests is the outcome of these raids. According to the chief of the Xianning City’s Public Security Bureau, the operations were the outcome of a year’s investigation. By searching into the tens of thousands of citizens’ gambling routine on internet casinos they managed to succeed. Gong Dao’an, the police chief, claimed that since 2004, more than seven billion dollars have been earned by the gangs working the online gambling sites. According to one police official, the majority of gambling funds were channeled to gambling circles abroad via secret avenues of money laundering. Gong Dao’n, the police chief assumed that the appropriated funds were those remaining in the local bank accounts, while most of it was already overseas. Furthermore, he also claimed that the gambling activities included sports wagers, card gambling games and horse racing, and that the sites’ operators probably credited the participants at high percentages. He requested that authorities abroad search for the offshore funds, further adding that the Interpol was searching for seven heads of the gambling activities. On the assumption that the operators get arrested they would incur prison sentences of a mere three to ten years, which wouldn’t be a deterrence against felons returning to their operations. Posted on: June 2, 2009
Back to June 2009's archive |
||||||||||||
|
Del.icio.us
Digg
Google
Spurl
Furl
Simpy
Y! MyWeb