ASIAN ACTION A SUCCESS, SAYS INTERPOL
11 July 2008
SOGA II detains 1 300 suspects, says international
police body
The almost weekly news reports of anti-gambling busts
across Asia Pacific countries (see various InfoPowa
reports) were consolidated into a progress report from
the International Police Association this week.
The Interpol statement to major news agencies noted that
police across Asia have arrested more than 1 300 people
and seized $US 16 million in major swoops on illegal
football gambling networks. In May and June, police
raided 1 088 illegal gambling dens across the region,
many allegedly controlled by organised crime gangs.
Located across China, including in Hong Kong and Macau,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam,
the dens are jointly estimated to have handled some $US
1.5 billion in bets, the statement claimed.
Codenamed Operation SOGA II - short for soccer gambling
- the crackdown was timed to coincide with the Euro 2008
football championships and the finals of other football
league matches around the world, Interpol said.
"The effect this operation has achieved is substantial,"
the international police agency's director of police
services, Jean-Michel Louboutin, said in the statement
from Interpol HQ in Lyon, France.
Louboutin added that the operation, the second of its
kind, "forms an excellent base for collective security
efforts during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics," which
kick off on August 8.
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