{"id":24260,"date":"2021-11-05T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=24260"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:06:18","slug":"china-142-suspected-of-organising-travels-to-gamble-at-tigre-de-cristal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-142-suspected-of-organising-travels-to-gamble-at-tigre-de-cristal","title":{"rendered":"China: 142 suspected of organising travels to gamble at Tigre de Cristal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authorities in China\u2019s Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces have a group that organised trips to gamble at the Tigre de Cristal casino in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

China.- Through a joint operation, police in the provinces of Heilongjiang and Jilin have dismantled a cross-border gambling operation that organised trips for Chinese citizens to gamble at\u00a0Tigre de Cristal<\/a>, located in\u00a0the Primorye Gambling Zone in Russia. <\/strong>Some 142 suspects were identified and 75 prosecuted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to press statements from the public security departments of the two provinces, among the 75 suspects, there were casino agents, employees and travel agency managers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The security departments said they found RMB 1.6bn (US$250m) was being used for gambling<\/strong>. They identified 18 shelf companies, which they said were used for capital transfers.\u00a0The police investigation also identified\u00a0four “underground banks”<\/strong>\u00a0and ten travel agencies alegedly providing services to gamblers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June, the Cyberspace Administration of China<\/a> announced four new measures to fight cross-border gambling including enhancing precision strikes on overseas gambling groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese authorities reported an increase in prosecutions for\u00a0gambling-related crimes\u00a0<\/strong>in the first half of the year, mainly related to casinos in Macau. They said that 86.3 per cent of the prosecutions were for the \u201cestablishment of casinos\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authorities in China\u2019s Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces have a group that organised trips to gamble at the Tigre de Cristal casino in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Chinese authorities in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces have dismantled a significant cross-border gambling operation that facilitated trips for Chinese citizens to the Tigre de Cristal casino in Russia. The operation involved 142 suspects, RMB 1.6bn in transactions, shell companies, and underground banks. This action aligns with China's broader crackdown on overseas gambling, including enhanced measures by the Cyberspace Administration and increased prosecutions for gambling-related crimes.","focusai_entities":"Tigre de Cristal, Cyberspace Administration of China","focusai_location":"China, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Russia, Primorye Gambling Zone, Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Primorye GGR?","query":"What are the specific implications for other land-based casinos in the Primorye Gambling Zone or other regions that historically attracted Chinese VIPs, regarding their Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) outlook?"},{"label":"China's Enforcement Evolution?","query":"How will the Cyberspace Administration of China's 'precision strikes' on overseas gambling groups evolve, and what technological countermeasures are anticipated to circumvent these enforcement efforts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-24260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24260","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=24260"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24296,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24260\/revisions\/24296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}