{"id":777017517,"date":"2024-07-24T09:50:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T12:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777017517"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:51:04","slug":"chinese-courts-to-continue-to-apply-tight-penalties-for-cross-border-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-courts-to-continue-to-apply-tight-penalties-for-cross-border-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Chinese courts to continue to apply tight penalties for cross-border gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Supreme People&#8217;s Court said the problem of offshore gaming was getting worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>China.- The Supreme People&#8217;s Court has instructed courts in China to continue applying strict penalties for cross-border gambling, particularly organisers and repeat offenders. It said foreign casinos and online gambling operations were increasingly targeting Chinese citizens, resulting in outflows of domestic funds and leading to other crimes, including abduction, illegal confinement, fraud, extortion, and money laundering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, China established\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-continues-to-expand-gambling-blacklist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a blacklist of destinations<\/a> to which cross-border transfers are restricted. The\u00a0list 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. China signed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-and-thailand-to-strengthen-cooperation-to-combat-online-gambling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cooperation agreements<\/a> with various countries in the region in 2022 and 2023 to combat online and cross-border gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-32000-arrested-over-cross-border-gambling-in-2023\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China: 32,000 arrested over cross-border gambling in 2023<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme People&#8217;s Court said the problem of offshore gaming was getting worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"China's Supreme People\u2019s Court has mandated strict penalties for cross-border gambling organizers and repeat offenders, citing increased targeting of Chinese citizens by foreign operations, leading to significant fund outflows and associated crimes. This directive reinforces existing legislation, including the 2021 revised Criminal Law, and international cooperation agreements aimed at combating illegal online and cross-border gambling.","focusai_entities":"Supreme People\u2019s Court, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Public Security","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.8), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Asian Market Strategy?","query":"How will China's intensified crackdown on cross-border gambling influence the market entry and operational strategies of iGaming operators and suppliers in other Asian jurisdictions?"},{"label":"AML Compliance for Operators?","query":"What enhanced AML and KYC measures are now imperative for B2C operators to mitigate the risk of inadvertently facilitating transactions from Chinese citizens, given the focus on fund outflows and money laundering?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777017517","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\/777017517","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=777017517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777017527,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017517\/revisions\/777017527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777017517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777017517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777017517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}