China Go To War Against External Gambling Promotions

Three of China’s leading law enforcement agencies stated that they were after any organisers of “cross-border gambling crimes” and that if there are any citizens involved in those activities they have until the 30^th April to give themselves up to Chinese authorities or face stronger punishments if they are caught.

In a joint announcement by the law agencies last week on mainland China it said that those nationals involved in illegal promotion of gambling to Chinese citizens should “turn themselves in” and receive more lenient prosecution by judges than those who were found to be supporting or acting as “backers and or investors of the gaming groups outside China that solicit our people to gamble.”

It is not believed these actions are focused on Macau operators but those working on behalf of other locations that promote casino gambling or online gambling to Chinese players.

On the briefing the law enforcement agencies did not mention any nations or countries that they are looking at but said they were focusing on “networks by the gambling groups working outside our country that targeted our people, and we will not give up until we achieve our goal.”

It is said that police had already taken legal action against some 35,000 people in China that were allegedly involved in illegal gambling activities in the last year.

In naming those people or organisations the new focus will be on and will be targeting are “casinos’ operators, controllers, investors, managers or those that profit from casinos, gaming rooms and gaming tables; and also the builders, providers and users of online gambling.