{"id":777013043,"date":"2024-02-09T08:20:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T11:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777013043"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:11:20","slug":"770-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling-in-guangdong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/770-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling-in-guangdong","title":{"rendered":"770 arrested for alleged illegal gambling in Guangdong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The arrests are part of police operation Breeze 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>China.- Under operation Breeze 2024, police in Guangdong\u00a0have <strong>arrested 770 people allegedly involved in gambling-related crimes<\/strong>. The time period was not specified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Media said police had resolved more than 470 criminal cases related to illegal gambling. Raids were carried out in rural areas targetting, mobile casinos, Texas Hold &#8217;em poker and Mark Six. According to Asia Gaming Brief, in mid-January,\u00a0Guangdong police shut down 24 illegal casinos\u00a0and arrested 544 suspects in a single raid.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January,\u00a0<strong>China\u2019s National Immigration Administration<\/strong>\u00a0announced that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-32000-arrested-over-cross-border-gambling-in-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">32,000 people were arrested in 35,000 cases<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>of obstructing national border control in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrests are part of police operation Breeze 2024.<\/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":"Guangdong police, under \"Operation Breeze 2024,\" arrested 770 individuals and resolved over 470 cases related to illegal gambling, targeting mobile casinos, Texas Hold 'em, and Mark Six in rural areas. This follows a previous January raid where 544 suspects were arrested, underscoring China's ongoing stringent enforcement against illicit gaming activities.","focusai_entities":"Guangdong police, China's National Immigration Administration, Asia Gaming Brief","focusai_location":"China, Guangdong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.7), tech_data (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Grey Markets?","query":"What is the estimated GGR impact of these large-scale enforcement operations on the illicit iGaming market within China, and how might this influence adjacent grey markets in Southeast Asia?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Efficacy?","query":"How do these enforcement actions align with China's broader national border control initiatives, and what implications do they have for the efficacy of existing governance frameworks in combating cross-border illegal gambling?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777013043","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\/777013043","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=777013043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777013059,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013043\/revisions\/777013059"}],"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=777013043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777013043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777013043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}