{"id":11146,"date":"2020-10-22T21:25:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T21:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=11146"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:44:46","slug":"china-detects-us149bn-in-cross-border-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-detects-us149bn-in-cross-border-gambling","title":{"rendered":"China detects US$149bn in cross-border gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A proposed amendment to criminalise the promotion of gambling is open for consultation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China.-&nbsp;The Ministry of Public Security has reported its achievements in the first nine months of 2020 in its crusade against cross-border gambling operations.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From January to September the Ministry estimated that cross-border gambling funds reached 1CNY trillion (US$149.6 billion) although it did not clarify how much of that was prevented from exiting the country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 8,800 cases were investigated in the period and over 60,000 suspects were arrested. The Ministry said it dismantled&nbsp;1,400 cross-border gambling operations that were aided by payment platforms and underground banks.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ministry said its measures will be&nbsp;a \u201cstrong deterrent\u201d for any international gaming companies that target Chinese players.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of these initiatives, in August the Chinese authorities announced they will issue a blacklist of gambling destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They also plan an amendment to China\u2019s criminal law, to <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-could-criminalise-promotion-of-overseas-casinos\" target=\"_blank\">criminalise the act of soliciting<\/a><\/em><\/strong> Chinese nationals to gamble or promoting gambling activities.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is expected to include possible jail sentences of between five and ten years, matching the penalty for running casinos in China.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The penalty for gambling would remain at three years of imprisonment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The amendment was&nbsp;reviewed&nbsp;by the Standing Committee of China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress last week and has become available for public consultation until November 19.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed amendment to criminalise the promotion of gambling is open for consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"China's Ministry of Public Security has intensified its crackdown on cross-border gambling, reporting 8,800 investigations, 60,000 arrests, and the dismantling of 1,400 operations involving CNY 1 trillion in funds. Concurrently, a proposed amendment to China's criminal law seeks to criminalize the promotion of gambling to Chinese nationals, carrying potential jail sentences of five to ten years, signaling a significant escalation in regulatory enforcement against international iGaming operators.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Public Security, Standing Committee of China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.98), operator_casino (0.97), affiliate_publisher (0.95), product_ux (0.75), tech_data (0.78), marketing_crm (0.95), payments_fraud_aml (0.92), investor_analyst (0.96), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Operator Risk Assessment","query":"What specific due diligence measures should international iGaming operators implement to mitigate the heightened criminal liability associated with the proposed Chinese legislative amendments, particularly concerning B2C licensing and geo-blocking?"},{"label":"B2B Supplier Exposure","query":"How might this intensified Chinese crackdown and proposed criminalization impact B2B iGaming suppliers whose platforms or services are utilized by operators with historical or current exposure to the Chinese market, considering potential secondary liability?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[227,20326],"class_list":["post-11146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-china","tag-illegal-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21156,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146\/revisions\/21156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}