Men with junior high school education open gambling sites： illegal profits of over 100 million in 3 months.
More than 4 million yuan of Bentley, more than 2.5 million yuan of Ferrari, more than 1 million yuan of Mercedes-Benz, plus more than 30 houses and more than 5 million yuan of deposits, as well as a box of Rolex, Cartier and other famous watches, these properties were acquired by Wu Mou, a 32-year-old Chongqing native with junior high school education, within three months.
Behind its rich property, there is an inter-provincial online gambling gang hidden in the internet space. On August 28th, according to the news of pinghu city police in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, after seven months of careful investigation, Pinghu police destroyed an inter-provincial mega-gambling gang.
As of press time, the police have arrested 36 suspects. According to the incomplete statistics of the police, the gambling gang involved 542 million yuan.
Some tools and illegal gains of gambling gangs seized by the police. Photo courtesy of the police
Friends circle advertising leads to a major case of online gambling.
In December 2018, the pinghu city Public Security Bureau’s Xindai Police Station got a clue that Zhou (female), a Henan native who works in a KTV in Pinghu, promoted and released an "Emgrand Entertainment" (a pseudonym) APP through WeChat friends circle to recruit players and agents. After investigation, the police found that the APP is a gambling game platform, which contains a variety of online gambling games such as "Sichuan Mahjong", "Bullfighting" and "Fried Golden Flower", and the funds in and out are particularly large.
On January 11th, Zhou was arrested by Pinghu police. With the arrest of Zhou, the police immediately analyzed and judged Zhou’s online gambling platform "Emgrand Entertainment". It turned out that Zhou’s last home was her boyfriend, but with a certain addiction to online gambling, there were few next homes. On the contrary, Zhou was a 7-level agent of the online gambling platform. In one month, 49 members and agents had been recruited, suspected of illegally profiting more than 50,000 yuan from it.
Police investigation found that the owner of "Emgrand Entertainment" platform is Wu Mou, a native of Chongqing, and the company is located in Shenzhen. The platform logs in through the form of WeChat authorization, and the spread speed is amazing.
In order to crack down on the whole chain, Pinghu police and the network police detachment of Jiaxing Public Security Bureau found that the network platform used gold coins as the settlement unit for gamblers to bet, and 1 yuan exchanged one gold coin. Since it was put into operation in September last year, there have been 810,000 members and 150,000 development agents, involving 524 million yuan and 118 million yuan in illegal profits.
Part of the illegal income of the suspect Wu Mou detained by the police. Photo courtesy of the police
Part of the illegal income of the suspect Wu Mou detained by the police.
Destroy online gambling dens across provinces
The police task force combed the massive information, and an organized online gambling gang headed by Wu Mou and operating in a company gradually surfaced.
Due to the seriousness of the case, in May this year, the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Bureau listed the case as a supervised case. On May 15th, with the support of the provincial public security department and the relevant departments of Jiaxing Public Security Bureau, the task force dispatched 120 police officers, divided into three groups, and rushed to Chongqing, Shenzhen and Chengdu to arrest them. By May 16th, the police had arrested 27 suspects, seized 16 computers, 65 mobile phones and 112 bank cards, and seized 310,000 yuan in cash. After that, the task force arrested several big agents and personnel of the upper and lower channels in the case and took compulsory measures for four people.
On August 8, Pinghu police dispatched more than 20 police officers again, arrested five suspects of a fourth-party payment platform who provided funds for the gambling platform in Wuhan, and seized 8 computers, more than 20 mobile phones and more than 100 bank cards on the spot. After investigation, the fourth-party payment platform provided funds settlement of more than 140 million yuan for the online gambling platform of "Dihao Entertainment" from October 2018 to January 2019, and illegally gained more than 2 million yuan.
Some tools of gambling gangs seized by the police. Photo courtesy of the police
According to reports, Wu Mou, the main member of the online gambling gang, is 32 years old and comes from Chongqing. After graduating from junior high school, I went to Shenzhen with my father. At the suggestion of my family, I trained in computer programming and application and accounting, and then I worked everywhere. I worked as a manager at the construction site and started a chicken farm in my hometown.
In 2016, during the course of opening a chicken farm, Wu Mou came into contact with online gambling and found business opportunities: acting as an agent can also make money. After Wu Mou became an agent in gambling sites, he developed four or five thousand people in two years, and earned about 20,000 yuan every day. In the second half of last year, Wu Mou decided to set up his own website as the boss. In August of the same year, Wu Mou went to Shenzhen to recruit more than 10 people, including Liu, to set up a team, spend 200,000 yuan to build an "Emgrand Entertainment" platform on the Internet, and discuss the profit before sharing it.
It is reported that the "Emgrand Entertainment" APP is distributed in the form of QR code, which is downloaded by scanning the QR code. There are gambling forms such as "Sichuan Mahjong", "Fried Golden Flower", "Bullfighting", "Long Hudou" and "Pushing a package", and customers can recharge and gamble directly from the platform. The website made a profit by tapping. Due to the large number of participants, the illegal profit reached 118 million yuan in just three months.
At present, the relevant suspects have been taken back to Zhejiang for further investigation, and the police are further digging into the specific circumstances of the case. (The Paper reporter Zhang Liutao correspondent Chen Yi)