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Online gambling challenges China's gambling ban
www.chinanews.cn 2005-03-18 09:54:44
(Source: China Newsweek , by Hu Ling, abbreviated)
The sudden surge in online gambling brings new challenge to China's
gambling ban.
At the beginning of 2005, a sky-high figure of 600 billion yuan (US.5
billion) shocked all Chinese people. According to statistics from the
China Center of Lottery Studies (CCLS) at Peking University, this
astounding amount of money flew overseas due to gambling losses. It is 15
times the welfare and sport lotteries issued in 2003. It is also
equivalent to China's total revenue from tourism in 2004. Some people
even consider this estimated figure to be conservative. The capital loss
cannot be accurately calculated.
International Gambling Companies targets China
Online gambling, only 5 years old at that time, started to infiltrate
China in 2000. Online gambling first landed in provincial capitals and
big and medium cities with high economic development and advanced network
infrastructure.
From 2000 to 2003, changes took place in the formation of online gambling
participants, with continual increase in the number of domestic and
foreign gambling websites, increase in the number of dealers, agents and
members, all targeting China, with promotion of gambling sites resembling
pyramid schemes common in multi-level marketing. Many gamblers who did
not know how to use the internet could place their bets with their agents
by phone calls, SMS and Fax. Those who know nothing about football and do
not like ball games could hire others to control the odds for online
gambling.
Compared to traditional gambling, online gambling is more difficult for
law enforcement to eradicate.
Agents of online gambling companies generally exercise long-distance
control over their subordinate agents and members, while members usually
do not meet each other directly. So online gambling is rather difficult
to detect. Gambling companies are able to constantly change their website
addresses and domain names when releasing gambling ads and information.
So an online gambling site has certain built-in evasive abilities.
Moreover, as soon as an operator is arrested, the evidence needed to
convict him, which is stored in servers, will be erased. Therefore the
police must take fast action and prevent the loss of crucial evidence.
The National Coordinating Office to Strike at Illegal Gambling revealed
that the Ministry of Public Security would unite telecom departments, the
China Banking Regulatory Commission and other departments to strengthen
the supervision and control of online gambling sites and prohibit funds
and assets from being sent to gambling websites through credit cards or
bank account transfer. Meanwhile, to solve the problem of gathering
sufficient admissible evidence of illegal online gambling, a judicial
expertise center specializing in appraising electronic data will be
founded and the appraisal results from this center will be regarded as
admissible evidence and legally valid.
Article 303 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China
prescribes that those who are involved in gambling, setting up casinos
and making a career of gambling for profit shall be sentenced to not more
than 3 years' imprisonment plus a fine. Therefore, suspects like Fu
Xiangrong who embezzled hundreds of millions of yuan of public funds will
be sentenced to no more than three years in jail.
The office has reported the current problem of light punishment of
illegal gamblers to the relevant departments. It hopes that new
legislation can resolve the bottleneck of insufficient punishment against
gambling by making necessary and prompt revisions to the Criminal Law.
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