According to the International law enforcement agency this week, focusing on unlawful football gambling assumed to be under the control of organized crime gangs, four hundred people have faced arrests throughout Asia in the wake of a pursuit lasting five months and in coordination with Interpol. In all, two hundred and seventy two secret gambling locations were recognized and closed by regional police officers, and it has been assessed that the global unlawful gambling involved amounted to over six hundred and eighty million US dollars. According to Jean-Michel Louboutin, the police services' executive director, claims that when national endeavors are collaborated with the world Interpol resources and network, meaningful success show that this collaborated application of a country's law enforcement can have on organized crime in a specific country. The soccer gambling operation, which began in June 2007, was given the code name acronym SOGA, and Interpol National Central Bureaus' officers as well legal police agencies throughout China and including Hong Kong and Macao, as well as other Asian countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore, held an operative meeting at Interpol's office of liaison in Bangkok for exchanging intelligence data. Individual regions would begin operations at the start of the soccer season, was decided by an agreement reached, that in the wake of a second meeting which took place in August in Dongguan, China, where a coaching workshop was held for officers participating in the action. According to Louboutin, not only organized crime gangs across Asia have been significantly hit by this operation, but the international collaboration prior to the 2008 Olympic Games with national and regional enforcement agencies has proved a superb collaboration test. SOGA represents the first collaborated action and its operation this year during October and November was to fight unlawful football gambling. The results are that four hundred and twenty three arrests were made and over six hundred and eighty thousand US dollars in cash money as well as computers, cars, credit cards, cell phones in assets have been appropriated. The operation's results will now be examined to decide whether any additional organized crime organizations or international felons are associated with it while experts at the Criminal Analysis units at Interpol, at Bangkok's Liaison Office and at Lyon's General Secretariat are collaborating in this examination. Posted on: December 13, 2007
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