{"id":777011329,"date":"2023-11-22T07:10:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T10:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777011329"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:21:23","slug":"china-man-arrested-over-suspicion-of-running-illegal-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-man-arrested-over-suspicion-of-running-illegal-casino","title":{"rendered":"China: man arrested over suspicion of running illegal casino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chen Shaojie, the founder of DouYu International, has been arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>China.- Police in Chengdu have said that a man named as Chen Moujie has been arrested on suspicion of running a casino.\u00a0The term &#8220;mou&#8221; is employed by China to partially anonymise the names of suspects. However, shortly after the arrest, DouYu International, a popular video game streaming platform, disclosed that its CEO, Chen Shaojie, had been taken into custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company said it had not received any official notice about an investigation against Chen or the grounds for his arrest. DouYu&#8217;s shares experienced a 6 per cent decline following the announcement. Chen Shaojie established DouYu in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gambling is illegal in China. Last year, Chinese authorities signed\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-and-thailand-to-strengthen-cooperation-to-combat-online-gambling\" target=\"_blank\">cooperation agreements<\/a>\u00a0with countries in the region to combat online and cross-border gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-32000-arrested-over-cross-border-gambling-in-h1\" target=\"_blank\">China: 32,000 arrested over cross-border gambling in H1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chen Shaojie, the founder of DouYu International, has been arrested.<\/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":"Chen Shaojie, founder and CEO of DouYu International, a prominent video game streaming platform, has been arrested in China on suspicion of operating a casino. This development, occurring in a jurisdiction where gambling is illegal, led to a 6% decline in DouYu's share price and underscores China's intensified regulatory enforcement against online and cross-border gambling.","focusai_entities":"Chen Shaojie, DouYu International, Chen Moujie","focusai_location":"China, Chengdu","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"DouYu Governance Impact","query":"What are the immediate and long-term implications for DouYu International's corporate governance framework and operational continuity following the CEO's arrest?"},{"label":"China Regulatory Enforcement","query":"How does this arrest reflect China's evolving regulatory enforcement strategy against online and cross-border gambling, and what are the potential ripple effects for other digital platforms?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777011329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-illegal-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011329","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=777011329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777040918,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011329\/revisions\/777040918"}],"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=777011329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777011329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777011329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}