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Gambling trial in China
 June 12, 2008, 8:27 am (3 years ago)According to the Chinese media, the country’s biggest online gambling arrest this week as trial of 20 gambling ring employees starts in the Kunming Intermediate People’s Court Yunnan Province.
Prosecutors claimed that the ring profited by over 200 million yuan. Around $1.24 billion in wagering were taken from a player base of 5 to 5198 by the ring between August 2006 and March 2007.
According to the prosecutors, Tan Zhiwei and Tan Zhiman, two brothers from Hong Kong were originally started the gambling organization in Burma and expanded into Internet gambling by setting up online gambling websites with servers in Guangzhou and Dongguan in Guangdong Province. It is said that there were over 2000 employees in a variety of departments including operational managers, IT workers and support staff, together with associates who opened hundreds of bank accounts to conceal the profits. Kang Zhenglong one of the defendants is a former official with the Ruili branch of the China Industrial and Commercial Bank, and opened several hundred bank accounts for the gambling group.
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