Authorities raided an illegal gambling ring believed to have brought in some NT$10m (US$329,937) in bets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Taiwan: A total of 18 people were arrested<\/strong> after police in central Taiwan busted an illegal gambling den for Vietnamese residents that had facilitated transactions of NT$10m (US$329,937).<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to officers, those arrested were engaged in an illegal game called Xoc Dia, which is very popular in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to a squad of the National Immigration Agency\u2019s Southern Administration Corps<\/strong>, all those arrested were immigrant workers or Vietnamese immigrants, except for two people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Taiwan News has reported incidents against migrant workers who failed to repay their debts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the raid, police seized gambling paraphernalia, NT$390,000 in cash, gambling ledgers, machetes, and baseball bats. Those arrested have been charged with illegal gambling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gambling in Taiwan is banned<\/strong> by the Criminal Code of the Republic of China. The only legal form of gambling in Taiwan is state-run lotteries. Casinos were legalized in 2009 but to date, none have been built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Authorities raided an illegal gambling ring believed to have brought in some NT$10m (US$329,937) in bets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":20111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Taiwanese authorities dismantled an illegal gambling ring targeting Vietnamese residents, resulting in 18 arrests and the seizure of NT$390,000 cash from an operation that facilitated NT$10 million in illicit wagers. This incident underscores the persistent challenges of enforcing gambling prohibitions in jurisdictions where only state-run lotteries are permitted, despite prior legislative efforts to legalize casinos.","focusai_entities":"National Immigration Agency\u2019s Southern Administration Corps, Taiwan News, Republic of China","focusai_location":"Taiwan, Vietnam","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.7), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.75), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Taiwan Regulatory Impact","query":"What are the specific regulatory and enforcement challenges highlighted by this illegal gambling bust, particularly concerning the 2009 casino legalization that has yet to yield operational venues?"},{"label":"Black Market Dynamics","query":"How does the prevalence of illegal gambling operations, such as the Xoc Dia ring, influence the potential for future B2C licensing and the overall GGR trajectory in Taiwan's nascent regulated market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777001582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001582","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=777001582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777001583,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001582\/revisions\/777001583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777001582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777001582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777001582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}