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Major Taiwan Online Gambling Prossecutions
 April 20, 2007, 2:00 pm (4 years ago)The China Post revealed this week that a major online gambling bust has been made by the Taiwanese police in the Panchiao District. In this gambling bust, the prosecutors and the police have claimed to have actually uncovered the country’s biggest online gambling website yet.
The police officials also have said that they have actually recorded the total revenues the bust to over a net of one point five billion dollars during a half of year period and that there were some local police that were involved.
Altogether, the prosecutors and around one hundred and twenty police officers actually raided the eighteen offices and also the residence of the twelve members of the online gambling ring, which included Huang Ping Chia, Huang was a police officer in the Danshui Precinct which is located in Taipei County, not to mention that there was a criminal investigation policeman that was surnamed Liu also of Taipei County that was seeking to collect the relevant evidence that they needed.
Lee Chi Hsiang who is a Panchiao District Prosecutor actually revealed that the online gambling ring was uncovered by officials that were investigating an illegal labor brokerage case and who actually in turn found out that Huang and also Liu were allegedly involved in the operation of an online gambling website.
Lee continued to say that the revelation of the case actually triggered a six month long investigation and to follow it was decided to launch a large scale raid of the offices and also the residence of the twelve suspects in Taipei, Taipei County and also Taichung.
Lee also went on to say that the twelve member ring actually solicited members via the actual website and that it then offered the members a variety of betting choices, which included underground futures trading and also professional basketball not to mention baseball games in the United States, also the Mark six game in Hong Kong, the five start lottery in Taiwan and the minimum stake was no less than a NT$10,000.
The two police officers that were implicated in the charges allegedly received regular bribes and also sex services through the website operators.
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