SENTENCES HANDED DOWN IN MAJOR CHINESE GAMBLING
TRIAL
20 February 2009
Twenty jailed over China's biggest online gambling
case
What is being described as China's largest online
gambling case yet came to a conclusion in a Shanghai
court over the weekend, when twenty defendants involved
in a $1-billion online football gambling case (see
previous InfoPowa reports) were fined and sentenced to
prison terms ranging from one to six years. All 20
accuseds pleaded guilty in January 2009, when sentencing
was deferred.
The Shanghai Putuo District
People's Court sentenced Qian Baochun (41) the prime
accused, to six years imprisonment and ordered him to
pay a fine of five million yuan ($735 000) for
establishing gambling websites, reports the Xinhua news
agency. Another 19 convicted accuseds, including Zou Jun
and Liu Biqing, two second tier ring leaders, were
sentenced to jail terms from one to five years with
fines ranging from 20 000 yuan to 1.01 million yuan.
The gang started its business in the summer of 2006,
when the soccer World Cup was held in Germany. Qian, Zou
and Liu opened accounts on several overseas gambling
websites and began to develop a network of agents and
gamblers, hiring people and paying commissions from the
enterprise's overseas profits, generated eventually from
wagers totalling around 6.6 billion yuan. The initiating
trio earned 1.6 million yuan between the latter half of
the year 2006 and July 2007, alone, the the court was
told by prosecutors.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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