{"id":17663,"date":"2021-05-07T17:01:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=17663"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:43:20","slug":"china-18000-cases-of-cross-border-gambling-detected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-18000-cases-of-cross-border-gambling-detected","title":{"rendered":"China: 18,000 cases of cross-border gambling detected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chinese police have arrested more than 110,000 people in relation to cross-border gambling in the last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>China.- The Chinese Government continues its fight against&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/145-banned-from-leaving-china-due-to-cross-border-gambling\">cross-border gambling<\/a>. The Ministry of Public Security has announced that <strong>police have investigated more than 18,000&nbsp;<\/strong>cross-border gambling cases and arrested 110,000 people since 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Zhao Kezhi, the minister of public security,&nbsp;<strong>police also detected 2,800 illegal payment platforms<\/strong>, more than 3,400 gambling platforms and over 2,200 gambling promotion platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police also raided underground banks and&nbsp;<strong>1,400 illegal technical teams connected to cross-border gambling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zhao Kezhi&nbsp;<\/strong>praised those who reported&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-continues-to-target-cross-border-gambling\">cross-border gambling cases<\/a>&nbsp;via the government&#8217;s online platform for whistleblowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;<strong>week-long awareness campaign was recently conducted across China<\/strong> warning about cross-border gambling and saying that it could affect people&#8217;s finances and safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese police have arrested more than 110,000 people in relation to cross-border gambling in the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Chinese Ministry of Public Security has reported over 110,000 arrests and 18,000 investigations related to cross-border gambling since 2020. This extensive crackdown targeted illegal payment, gambling, and promotion platforms, alongside underground banks and technical support teams, underscoring China's stringent regulatory stance against illicit iGaming operations.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Public Security, Zhao Kezhi","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), affiliate_publisher (0.85), tech_data (0.8), marketing_crm (0.75), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"China Enforcement Impact","query":"What are the projected long-term implications of China's sustained cross-border gambling crackdown on the operational strategies and market access for licensed iGaming entities in regulated Asian jurisdictions?"},{"label":"Payment Channel Risk","query":"How will the targeting of 'illegal payment platforms' and 'underground banks' by Chinese authorities influence global payment service providers' due diligence and AML protocols for iGaming transactions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-17663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17663","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=17663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17689,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17663\/revisions\/17689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}