TAIWAN - POLICE BUST 18 IN ONLINE GAMBLING RAID
12 October 2007
Fake law firm the front for illegal gambling
operation
Police in Taichung this week arrested 18 people on
suspicion of running illegal sports betting operations
over the Internet, taking advantage of the popularity of
New York Yankees pitcher Wang Chien-ming to earn several
million US dollars.
Officers from the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB)
broke up the gambling ring, arresting main suspect Huang
Chu-ming and 17 other people in the process. Among those
arrested were computer engineers who maintained the
online gambling web sites for Huang.
Police said the group set up several web sites as part
of the business and had received NT$100 million (US$3
million) on average in bets each month. They added that
Huang and the other suspects had established a fake law
firm in Taichung, that was actually the office of the
illegal gambling group.
Police said the suspects asked gamblers to return bets
using the name of the law firm.
The CIB said in a press statement that online sports
betting has become rampant in Taiwan since Wang became a
star, and said that Huang had told them the group had
made good profits recently as most Taiwanese gamblers
had bet in favour of Wang and the Yankees, but Wang and
his team had lost in the playoffs.
Computers that were used to run the online gambling Web
sites were seized in the raid.
The CIB said that since sports bookies set up their
servers outside the country, cracking down on online
gambling had been difficult, but the bureau would
continue to clamp down on domestic activity.
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