{"id":14279,"date":"2021-02-05T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=14279"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:04:01","slug":"china-continues-to-target-cross-border-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-continues-to-target-cross-border-gambling","title":{"rendered":"China continues to target cross-border gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The country has amended its criminal code to make it illegal for anyone to assist others in cross-border gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

China.-\u00a0It seems China is determined to tackle cross-border gambling<\/strong>, both online gambling and gambling at casinos beyond China\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country has changed its criminal code <\/strong>to make it illegal for anyone to assist others in cross-border gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities appear to have declared a form of amnesty, affirming that those who confess to involvement in cross-border gambling before May, will be treated with leniency<\/strong> by China\u2019s Ministry of Public Security, the Supreme People\u2019s Court and the Supreme People\u2019s Procuratorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liao Jinrong, director of the international cooperation department at the ministry, said: “Our goal is to completely paralyse the soliciting networks by the gambling groups working outside our country<\/strong> that target our people, and we will not give up until we achieve our goal.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The targets for the government sanctions are casino operators, investors, managers or those that profit from casinos gaming rooms and gaming tables. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authorities are also targeting the owners, providers and users of the online gaming sites and apps.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Liao Jinrong, police took legal action against 35,000 people involved in gambling activities in 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the Chinese Standing Committee of the National People\u2019s Congress announced a proposed amendment that would criminalise the act of \u201cluring\u201d Chinese gamblers to overseas casinos<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The country has amended its criminal code to make it illegal for anyone to assist others in cross-border gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14282,"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 has significantly escalated its regulatory enforcement against cross-border gambling by amending its criminal code to criminalize assistance in such activities. This legislative action targets both online and land-based operations, including operators, investors, managers, and online platform providers. An amnesty period has been declared for those who confess involvement before May, signaling a determined effort to dismantle illicit soliciting networks.","focusai_entities":"Liao Jinrong, China\u2019s Ministry of Public Security, Supreme People\u2019s Court, Supreme People\u2019s Procuratorate, Chinese Standing Committee of the National People\u2019s Congress","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.9), marketing_crm (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Extraterritorial Impact Analysis?","query":"What are the specific extraterritorial implications of China's amended criminal code for non-Chinese iGaming entities, particularly regarding B2B\/B2C licensing and operational compliance?"},{"label":"GGR\/NGR Projections Impact?","query":"How will this intensified crackdown on cross-border gambling affect the Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) projections for major Asian-facing iGaming operators and their capital market valuations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,154,158],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-14279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14279"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14319,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279\/revisions\/14319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}