{"id":777003813,"date":"2023-03-29T12:15:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T15:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777003813"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:18:26","slug":"taiwan-police-arrest-46-people-in-connection-with-illegal-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/taiwan-police-arrest-46-people-in-connection-with-illegal-casino","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan police arrest 46 people in connection with illegal casino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Police in Yunlin’s Douliu district made the arrests at a “factory-like facility”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Taiwan.- Police in Douliu, Yunlin, have made 46 arrests at what was described as a factory-like facility suspected of being used to run an illegal casino. Police also seized NT$1.89m (US$62,000) in cash in an early morning operation yesterday (March 28).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police are said to have been watching the location for several days, observing a van dropping off groups of people at the site. According to Liberty Times, officers broke open the door and arrested everyone present. The suspected leader of the illegal casino, a 31-year-old man surnamed Wu, was among those arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police say the illegal casino mainly served local people working in the areas of agriculture, industry, and commerce, although some immigrants were also arrested. Officers believe the gambling operation frequently changed locations to avoid detection, with gamblers being notified to assemble in remote areas to be transported to the location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January, police arrested 18 people<\/strong> in central Taiwan at an alleged gambling operation for Vietnamese residents<\/a>. According to officers, those arrested were engaged in an illegal game called xoc dia, which is popular in Vietnam. According to the National Immigration Agency\u2019s Southern Administration Corps<\/strong>, all but two of those arrested were immigrant workers or Vietnamese immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only legal form of gambling in operation in Taiwan are the state-run lotteries. Casinos were legalised in 2009 but to date, no regulated casinos have been built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police in Yunlin’s Douliu district made the arrests at a “factory-like facility”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Yunlin police department in Taiwan executed an enforcement action, apprehending 46 individuals and seizing NT$1.89m from an illicit casino operating within a factory-like facility. This incident underscores the persistent challenge of unregulated gambling operations in Taiwan, a jurisdiction where state-run lotteries are the sole legal gambling vertical, despite the legislative approval of casinos in 2009 without subsequent operationalisation.","focusai_entities":"Wu, National Immigration Agency\u2019s Southern Administration Corps","focusai_location":"Taiwan, Yunlin, Douliu, Central Taiwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Taiwan Regulatory Path","query":"What specific governance frameworks and B2B\/B2C licensing reforms are required to transition Taiwan from its current state of legalised but non-operational casinos to a fully regulated iGaming and land-based market, mitigating the prevalence of illicit operations?"},{"label":"Illicit GGR Impact","query":"How do the estimated GGR and NGR generated by these persistent illegal gambling operations, particularly those targeting specific demographics, impact the financial viability and market attractiveness for potential licensed operators considering entry into Taiwan?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777003813","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\/777003813","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=777003813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777003844,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003813\/revisions\/777003844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777003813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777003813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777003813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}