Hong Kong police disintegrate a criminal group operating an illegal online gambling platform, arrested 42 people, including the group's main brain and backbone members.
According to Sing Tao Daily on Thursday (August 31), the group was suspected of a total of HK $ 300 million (about S $ 52 million) from October last year to July this year.
The Hong Kong Police Science and Technology Crime Team Police Gao Di introduced that the police had previously discovered a local criminal group manipulated by the underworld that operated a 24 -hour online gambling platform since March last year, allowing gamblers to pass throughBets on webpages or mobile applications, illegally receive bets, and draw commissions.
The police introduced that through different social platforms, the group actively promoted the use of SMS and mobile phone communication applications to encourage gamblers to invite friends to register for gambling.Gamblers can use fast or cryptocurrencies to recharge points, and then use these points for multiple gambling activities.
After in -depth investigation, the police found that the criminal group had obvious structure and division of labor.Responsible for dealing with crimes.The criminal group also stores the server of the online gambling platform overseas in an attempt to escape the police's investigation.
The police introduced that the group has at least seven operating bases in multiple districts in Hong Kong. Each stronghold has its own independent functions, such as providing customer service, technical support, checking points exchange, handling of crimeswait.Police evaluated that the total bets received by this online gambling platform each month were more than 26 million Hong Kong dollars.
After locking the characters and locations of the case, the police launched the arrest operation from August 30th to 31st, breaking the seven operating centers of the group, in order to "conspire to accept bets" and "conspiracy to wash money".A total of 21 men and 21 women were arrested, including the group's main brain and backbone members, as well as holders of some cricket bank accounts.The arrested people are between 18 and 60 years old, and everyone is still detained for investigation.
Police found through the cricket bank account controlled by the criminal group that from October 2022 to July this year, the group was cleaned a total of nearly HK $ 300 million in suspicion.Police also searched 69 computers, 240 -handed calls, and two devices that could send a large number of SMS and "cat ponds".
