The Ministry of Public Security cracked a number of major online gambling cases, and the platform of the Texas Convention Bureau became the hardest hit area.
Recently, the Ministry of Public Security informed that in view of the recent obvious increase in gambling-related problems in online games, which seriously violated the legitimate rights and interests of the people, the Ministry of Public Security supervised and guided various localities to continuously detect a large number of major cases of opening casinos by using online games platforms.
In April 2018, the Ministry of Public Security directed the public security organs in Henan, Beijing, Guangxi and other places to jointly act, successfully detected the case that the chess and card business department of Beijing Lianzhong Company used the online game platform to open a casino, and arrested 36 suspects including Qin, executive vice president of Lianzhong Company, Xu, head of the chess and card business department, Zhou, head of the big customer department, and Zhang, a "banker", and frozen more than 65 million yuan of funds involved.
At the end of January 2018, the Ministry of Public Security directed the public security organs in Jilin to successfully detect the case of using the "Deyou Circle" App to open a casino involving 7 provinces and 30 cities, and arrested several major suspects of an online company in Chengdu, Sichuan, involving more than one billion yuan in gambling money.
In January 2018, the Ministry of Public Security directed the Zhejiang public security organs to destroy the casino criminal gang opened by the "797" online game platform in one fell swoop, coordinated the joint arrest of 52 suspects at home and abroad, and frozen funds of 330 million yuan. At present, there are still a number of major cases under investigation.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Public Security said that the public security organs will continue to crack down and punish illegal gambling in accordance with the law. While cracking down on traditional gambling crimes, they will pay close attention to and dynamically analyze and judge the trend characteristics of new online gambling crimes, further enhance their precision strike capability, and resolutely destroy a number of online game gambling criminal gangs, effectively squeezing the living space of online game platforms involved in gambling activities.
The hardest hit area of online gambling on the platform of Dezhou Jockey Bureau
CCTV News broadcast a crazy online gambling investigation report on April 15th. The program exposed the gambling phenomenon in five mobile phone Texas Hold ’em app platforms, and directly organized members to gamble with eight clubs. (For details, see: online APP openly nearly 10,000 people gamble that large clubs earn millions of dollars a month! How is the gambling chain formed? After the program was broadcast, eight clubs disappeared into the network and never appeared again. Three of the five mobile phone Texas Hold ’em apps stopped operating within 24 hours of the program broadcast and have not resumed operations so far. The other two apps, Texas Jockey Board and Poker Circle Platform, continue to operate. Through nearly a month’s observation, the reporter found that online gambling behavior has become more and more fierce on these two app platforms, and more and more clubs have been opened.
On April 15, CCTV news reported that there were clubs organizing members to gamble in the app platform of the Texas Convention Bureau. On April 17, the platform of the Texas Convention Bureau issued a notice saying that the platform abides by laws and regulations and prohibits all illegal activities carried out by the platform. At the same time, carry out self-examination and self-correction, strengthen supervision, and immediately close the club when gambling is found.
The words in the announcement, hit the floor, are just the opposite.
After the announcement of the platform of Texas Convention Bureau, the reporter found that the clubs suspected of organizing members to gamble were still active on the platform. In less than a month, the reporter joined 13 clubs, all of which organized members to gamble. They are Jordan Club, Jingwumen Club, Big Banana Club, Fish Country Club, Royal Club, Squirrel No.1 Club, Huluwa Club, Soul Cloud Club, Turkey Club, Renhe Club, Flying Eagle Club and Everyday Deyou Club.
If a club member wants to gamble in the platform of Texas Convention Bureau, he should first transfer the money to the club customer service, and the customer service will give the member an equal score. If the member makes a profit in gambling, the club will deduct 5% of the profit as a service fee and then transfer the remaining money to the member.
These 13 clubs are divided into different rooms according to their chips. From one yuan to two yuan, up to 50 or 100 rooms, members gamble on the Internet every day, and some rooms with big chips can be regarded as gambling.
On May 10th, in a room of Huluwa Club, a player named as a small target made a profit of 22,100 yuan in two hours, and both players lost 10,000 yuan if they wanted to fight.
The club charges 5% of the players’ profit as a service fee, so is the club the winner with the most profit in online gambling? The reporter found through observation that the real winner is not the club, but the platform.
If players want to gamble on the platform, in addition to exchanging chips with the club, they must also buy gold coins from the platform before they can sit down and gamble. The income of gold coins is the profit of the platform, so how do you sell gold coins? About 1% of the chips bought. That is to say, if a player buys 10,000 yuan of chips, he will buy nearly 100 yuan of gold coins. Take the profit of that room as an example, the price of gold coins purchased by players is nearly 1400 yuan.
The platform announcement of Texas Treaty Bureau said that it would carry out self-examination and self-correction, strengthen supervision, and immediately close the club if it found gambling behavior. All the 13 clubs that the reporter joined were suspected of gambling. Since the platform did not find out, the reporter gave feedback to the platform as a player.
On the evening of May 10th, the reporter reported that two of the clubs had gambling in the feedback column of the platform of the Texas Convention Bureau and the WeChat WeChat official account of the Texas Convention Bureau. Until the program was broadcast, the reporter didn’t get any feedback from the platform, and the two clubs continued to operate.
After the crazy online gambling report was broadcast on April 15th, the poker circle announced on the same day that it would carry out comprehensive rectification to prevent similar incidents from happening. The reporter then joined a club called Sea Lion Team Club and Spyker Celebrity Club. What these two clubs did was also to exchange chips for players and refund their profits.
Depot Circle: the safest platform in the industry
Depo Circle has a long-standing reputation in the online Texas Hold ’em field. The customer service of the club here told reporters that their platform is the safest club, and claimed that their backstage is strong, so players can bet with confidence.
The reporter added six clubs to the mobile app platform of Depo Circle, namely, Bighead Fish Club, Yongjinmen Club, Baby Tree Club, Underwater World Club, Youbo Entertainment Club and Grand Sailing Club. These six clubs are all clubs that organize members to gamble in the platform. What they do is to collect members’ money, get an equal score, deduct the service fee after the members make profits, and then transfer the money to the members.
Since the end of last year, eight ministries and commissions have jointly cracked down on online gambling, and local police have successively cracked down on online gambling cases. CCTV news also made special exposure on online Texas Hold ’em gambling twice in February and April this year. Under the background that the country has stepped up efforts to crack down on online gambling in China and purify the network environment, the customer service of the Golden Gate Club told reporters that the platform where the club is located is very safe.
Yongjinmen Club Customer Service:Boss, we are very stable and have a strong backstage. The boss is playing here, don’t worry. Is its headquarters in the United States or something? Anyway, don’t worry about this platform.
Since the reporter joined the Depo Circle Club, the club has sent messages to reporters almost every day, inviting reporters to gamble in their club.
Yongjinmen Club Customer Service:Good morning, boss. Our new alliance is called Yongjinmen, which is available at all levels and all day. Our brand awards are more generous than before. You can come and have a look if you have time.
The reporter began to pay attention to the phenomenon of online Texas Hold ’em gambling at the beginning of the year. The club organizes members to gamble in the platform of Texas Hold ’em app. Under normal circumstances, if the club can open 6 tables at the same time, it means that the members of the club are quite active, and this underwater world club in Depo Circle can open 66 tables at the same time, which can be said to be a giant club in the online Texas Hold ’em field.
Lawyer’s interpretation: Internet platform can’t stay out of the law
Online Texas Hold ’em gambling mainly involves three parties: players, clubs and platforms. So whether these three parties have violated the law, the reporter consulted a legal person for this.
In the online Texas Hold ’em world, thousands of players are playing cash games every day. Lawyers said that the gambling participants have been suspected of violating the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law, and the public security organs can impose administrative detention on the gambling participants for 5 to 15 days.
The club is responsible for soliciting players, organizing gambling, and drawing money from gambling funds. Lawyers said that the club’s behavior is suspected of gambling and opening casinos.
Jiao Yang of Beijing Zhongjian Law Firm:According to the law, he may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, and if the circumstances are serious, he may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than 10 years and fined for the crime of opening a casino or gathering people to gamble.
As for the online Texas Hold ’em platform, experts said that the platform knew that someone was gambling in the platform and did not stop it. At the same time, it also indirectly or directly profited from gambling, which was also suspected of constituting the crime of opening a casino. Even if the platform insists that it has no knowledge that the club operates gambling on its own platform, lawyers believe that the platform can not escape the legal accountability.
Jiao Yang of Beijing Zhongjian Law Firm:Because according to Article 7 of the Regulations on the Management of Mobile Internet Application Information Services, it has the obligation of active supervision and management. If it does not take the initiative to supervise and manage, it will bear corresponding legal responsibilities. If it does not actively supervise and manage this information, which indirectly leads to some people using its mobile Internet to provide the crime of suspected casino opening, then the corresponding network service platform is also suspected of joint crime by inaction.