The Ministry of Public Security claims to have shut down the sites as part of a clampdown on illegal cross-border activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
China.- China’s Ministry of Public Security has announced that it has confiscated more than 229 billion yuan (US$32.4 billion) in its recent clampdown on illegal cross-border gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ministry says it has arrested more than 11,500 suspects, brought 257 criminal cases and closed 368 gambling platforms since the campaign was launched on February 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The campaign is focusing on other types of cross-border crimes as well, such as telecommunication fraud, money laundering, kidnapping, abduction, trafficking and human smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ministry of Public Security said it had also closed 27,000 bank accounts involved with illicit activity. It has put many of the people arrested on China’s blacklist for entering and exiting the country, it said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
China has been clamping down hard on illegal gambling through several initiatives aimed at overseas casinos that target Chinese customers, including through the recent launch of an online whistleblower platform<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The People\u2019s Bank of China has been going after <\/a><\/strong><\/em>payment services<\/a><\/em><\/strong> used to send money to betting platforms outside the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ministry of Public Security claims to have shut down the sites as part of a clampdown on illegal cross-border activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7490,"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 illegal cross-border gambling, confiscating over US$32.4 billion, arresting 11,500 suspects, and closing 368 platforms and 27,000 bank accounts. This comprehensive campaign targets not only illicit gaming operations but also associated financial crimes like money laundering and payment services facilitating these activities.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Public Security, People's Bank of China","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Payment Processors","query":"What specific measures are payment service providers implementing to mitigate exposure to illicit cross-border gambling transactions following China's intensified crackdown?"},{"label":"Operator Market Re-evaluation","query":"How will this enforcement action influence the strategic market diversification and jurisdictional compliance frameworks of B2C iGaming operators previously targeting Asian grey markets?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[227,20326],"class_list":["post-7488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/7488","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=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21153,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions\/21153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}