KOREAN POLICE AGAIN ACTIVE AGAINST ONLINE CASINO OPERATORS

2 February 2007

Five operators in China are being sought by cops from Korea

The Korean government offensive against online gambling continued this week with the arraignment of 76 online gamblers charged with using unidentified gambling websites, media in the country reported. The accuseds include an interesting cross section of society - a doctor, a company executive, a housewife, and a college student.

"They gambled on the sites for more than a month spending more than 2 million won each. Most of them were not aware that gambling on the Internet is subject to the country's gambling laws,'' a police officer said.

The Korean authorities are also hot on the trail of five online casino operators who made the gambling possible for the 76 persons charged, and the assistance of the Interpol has been requested to bring them to justice. Apparently the five were originally in Pusan, Korea but relocated to China after being busted for providing illegal online gambling in 2001.

According to the police, the suspects, who are living in China, opened two gambling Web sites using Hong Kong servers in April 2004. They built up a clientele of more than 20 000 Korean members through advertisements using cell phone text messages and provided them with online gambling venues for poker and "go-stop,'' a Korean card game.

The money involved totaled 13.5 billion won, the police said.

Gamblers sent cash to the operators' bank accounts, who in turn provided them with game money, taking 8 percent of the cash as commission.

According to the police the five operators are members of the same family located in Shenzhen, China where they continue to run their illegal gambling business.

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