{"id":29842,"date":"2022-05-13T06:46:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T09:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=29842"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:44:47","slug":"china-says-its-investigated-11000-cross-border-gambling-cases-since-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-says-its-investigated-11000-cross-border-gambling-cases-since-2021","title":{"rendered":"China says it&#8217;s investigated 11,000 cross-border gambling cases since 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities in China have revealed that more than 90,000 people have been prevented from leaving the country due to gambling activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China.- According to a report released by<strong>\u00a0the National Immigration Administration of China<\/strong>, authorities have investigated 11,000 cases related to illegal cross-border gambling and fraud since 2021. They&#8217;ve also prevented more than 90,000 people from leaving the country for participating in gambling activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, 15,000 people were identified as using illegal means to leave the country to engage in gambling activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chinese government has wagered a crackdown on cross-border gambling activities. In 2020, it established\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-continues-to-expand-gambling-blacklist\" target=\"_blank\">a blacklist of destinations<\/a>\u00a0to which cross-border transfers are controlled. The\u00a0<strong>blacklist<\/strong>\u00a0is compiled through work by multiple departments, including the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Public Security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And from March 2021, China\u2019s revised Criminal Law made it illegal for anyone who assists in cross-border gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the entry into force of the new code, the three mainland law enforcement agencies issued a joint statement in early February last year, calling on individuals to surrender or assist in judicial investigations of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-continues-to-target-cross-border-gambling\" target=\"_blank\">cross-border gambling activities<\/a>.\u00a0The authorities said at the time that in return they would consider lenient treatment when dealing with such issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in China have revealed that more than 90,000 people have been prevented from leaving the country due to gambling activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26756,"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 National Immigration Administration reports significant enforcement actions against illegal cross-border gambling, preventing over 90,000 individuals from exiting the country and investigating 11,000 related cases since 2021. This crackdown, supported by a multi-departmental blacklist and a revised Criminal Law criminalizing assistance in cross-border gambling, underscores the PRC's stringent stance on illicit gaming activities and capital outflows.","focusai_entities":"National Immigration Administration of China, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Public Security","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Cross-border enforcement impact?","query":"What are the projected long-term impacts of China's intensified cross-border gambling enforcement on regional iGaming GGR and NGR, particularly for operators in adjacent jurisdictions?"},{"label":"Regulatory framework evolution?","query":"How might China's multi-departmental blacklist and revised Criminal Law influence the development of international regulatory cooperation frameworks for combating illicit gambling?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-29842","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\/29842","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=29842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29853,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29842\/revisions\/29853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}