Underground casinos, online gambling and other new forms of gambling were targeted by Chinese police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
China.- The Ministry of Public Security has announced that authorities detained over 50,000 people linked to over 400,000 offences <\/strong>involving prostitution and gambling activities in 2022. The ministry said that it had observed a growing trend of these crimes migrating onto the internet<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a result, Chinese police have been targeting underground casinos, online gambling and new types of gambling. The ministry has promised to follow up on key cases and to strengthen cross-departmental coordination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last year, Chinese authorities signed various cooperation agreements<\/a> with countries in the region to combat online and cross-border gambling. In addition, in 2020, the Chinese government established a blacklist of destinations<\/a> to which cross-border transfers are restricted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The blacklist<\/strong> is compiled by multiple departments, including the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Public Security. In March 2021, China\u2019s revised Criminal Law made it illegal to assist cross-border gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Underground casinos, online gambling and other new forms of gambling were targeted by Chinese police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26498,"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 detained over 50,000 individuals in 2022 for gambling and prostitution offenses, noting a significant migration of these illicit activities to online platforms. The Ministry of Public Security is intensifying its crackdown on underground casinos and online gambling, strengthening inter-departmental and international cooperation, and leveraging legislative tools like the 2021 revised Criminal Law which prohibits assisting cross-border gambling.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Asian Markets","query":"What are the projected long-term impacts of China's intensified cross-border gambling crackdown on the legitimate iGaming markets in neighboring Asian jurisdictions?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Evolution","query":"How might China's 'blacklist of destinations' and the criminalization of assisting cross-border gambling influence the development of international regulatory cooperation frameworks for online gaming?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777003771","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\/777003771","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=777003771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777003795,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003771\/revisions\/777003795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777003771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777003771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777003771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}