The police conducted centralized escorts to the suspects in the special case. Photo provided by the police
China News Network Yancheng , September 24 (Gu Hua Xiaojian) More than 190 criminal suspects were arrested, 12 illegal and criminal dens were destroyed, more than 10 cases were solved, and more than 1 billion yuan of funds were found to be investigated... On September 24, the Yancheng police in Jiangsu Province released the results of the cluster closing action of cracking down on cross-border gambling and "Clean Internet 2020" special operation.
The police officer in charge of the case is being interrogated. Photo provided by the police
"Closing the Internet!" On August 13, with the order, police officers from the Economic and Technological Development Zone Branch of Yancheng Public Security Bureau went to Heze, Shandong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, and Xiamen, Fujian to arrest 29 criminal suspects in one fell swoop, successfully cracking the "7.25" major cross-border online gambling case, and frozen more than 12 million yuan of funds.
"Although the platform server in this case is located overseas, the payment and settlement gang was locked by tracing the source of its capital flow." Wang Rong, head of the Cybersecurity Brigade of the Economic and Technological Development Zone Branch of Yancheng Public Security Bureau, introduced that the gang rented multiple servers at home and abroad, built a payment and settlement system, and used thousands of bank cards to provide recharge channel interface services for more than 30 overseas gambling websites, with a daily settlement amount of more than one million yuan. As of the incident, the cumulative settlement of over 100 million yuan has been made.
The police successfully destroyed a criminal gang that opened an online casino. Photo provided by the police
Yancheng Public Security Bureau Tinghu Branch handled a case of opening an online casino using the chess and card mobile game APP, with a huge amount of data of 6T. It took nearly two weeks for five police officers from the task force to "digest" these massive data and successfully fix the evidence. On August 14, Tinghu police organized police forces to go to Hunan, Hubei and other places to arrest 24 criminal suspects in one fell swoop.
"The difference between combating cybercrime and traditional crimes is to decode '1' and '0' and find the 'golden key' to break through the case in massive data." Tang Yang, the fourth-level police technology director of the Cybersecurity Detachment of Yancheng Public Security Bureau, introduced that in the more than 10 cases of online cross-border gambling, a total of more than 300 TB of data were screened, and millions of banks, Alipay and WeChat accounts involved were sorted out, involving hundreds of millions of funds, providing strong data support for case investigation.
"Don't move!" On the morning of August 14, with the support of Beijing Chaoyang police, Yancheng police organized more than 40 police officers to collect the Internet from Chaoyang District Technology Co., Ltd., arrested 9 criminal suspects, and fixed 40T of electronic data involved in the case on the spot, successfully cracking a case of infringement of citizens' personal information.
"Online cross-border gambling, from platform construction, domestic agents, to technical support, and fourth-party fund settlement, many black and gray industrial chains will be derived from each link." Lu Lihai, deputy captain of the Cybersecurity Detachment of Yancheng Public Security Bureau, introduced that many domestic online gambling agents will purchase a large amount of citizens' personal information and send information indirectly to push links to download gambling APPs.
The police seized bank cards, U shields, passbooks and other tools involved in the case. Photo provided by the police
It is understood that in many cases of online cross-border gambling black and gray industry chain investigated by Yancheng police, there are suspected of illegal cashing out using financial management APP, suspected of selling citizens' personal information, suspected of selling bank cards, Alipay accounts, and suspected of bundling obscene platforms and gambling platforms. Most of these online black and gray industrial chains serve overseas online gambling platforms. Cutting off these chains is equivalent to cutting off the "black hands" of overseas criminals reaching out to the people's money bags.
It is understood that in the next step, Yancheng police will also focus on the "six major positions" of banking, Internet companies, illegal lottery, online games, foreign investment and labor cooperation, and outbound tourism, pay attention to moving the checkpoints forward, strengthen publicity efforts, strengthen source governance, take combat and prevention, and implement comprehensive measures, and strive to squeeze the illegal and criminal space for cross-border gambling. (End)
