Chinese police claim success in investigations into online gambling and pornography

The Chinese police did a little bragging over the weekend, telling news agency Xinhua that since the beginning of 2017 they have completed investigations in 130,000 pornography cases and over 280,000 gambling cases, with the reported number of related cases dropping 13 percent year on year.

The Ministry of Public Security said Friday that the tally includes 135 major cross-border cases involving pornography and online gambling during the period, busting domestic organisational channels of casinos based in more than 10 countries and regions, detaining over 5,300 suspects, and freezing over 6 billion yuan (US $ 956 million) of involved capital

The ministry has pledged to target the organisers, operators, and profiteers from pornography and gambling, and severely punish those providing an “umbrella” for these illegal activities, Xinhua reports..

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