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According to the official account of the Internet Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, Inner Mongolia police have successfully cracked a major cross-border online gambling case, arresting 36 suspects and involving 6 billion yuan in funds, CTOnews.com reported on Nov. 17.

Review of the case

Some time ago, the network security police in Dongsheng District, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, learned during their work that Zhang, a resident in the area, participated in gambling through a lottery gambling App.

Zhang told himself that he had been introduced to the App and found that there were many games in it after downloading, so he registered an account and recharged the bet under the guidance of the customer service staff, and soon lost tens of thousands of yuan.

The Internet police found that the mobile app is actually a large online gambling platform, including "digital lottery", "e-sports", "sports betting" and other 35 categories and 120 kinds of gambling games.

After investigation, it is preliminarily determined that the server of the network gambling platform is set up and maintained abroad, and it is a professional criminal gang that organizes gambling through the network platform. it has the characteristics of wide area, large number of people involved, concealed means of crime, numerous and miscellaneous network information, tight organization, clear division of labor, and huge amount of money involved.

According to statistics, since 2017, the development of the online gambling platform has attracted more than 860000 gamblers and more than 6 billion yuan in transactions.

CTOnews.com learned from the Network Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security that five provinces and cities, including Jilin, Beijing, Hunan, Hubei and Guangdong, carried out centralized network collection operations, arrested 36 people involved in the case, recovered and confiscated gambling funds and illegal gains of 13 million yuan, eliminated 15 "money laundering" gangs, frozen funds of more than 1300 million yuan, frozen 125 accounts involved, and seized 76 bank cards and 95 mobile phones.

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