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IAG FEB 2022年2月 亞博匯 11 請登錄asgam.com訂閱《亞博匯早報》 Sign up to receive IAG Breakfast Briefing at asgam.com CHINA SAYS 17,000 CROSS-BORDER GAMBLING CASES ACTED ON IN 2021 中 國 在 2 0 2 1 年 共偵辦跨境賭博及 相關案件1.7萬餘起 CHINA’SMINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY says it investigatedmore than 17,000 cases of cross-border gambling and arrested more than 80,000 suspects in 2021 under increased measures aimed at cracking down on criminal activity. It also destroyed more than 2,200 online gambling platforms, 1,600 illegal payment platforms and underground banks, 930 illegal technical service teams and 1,500 gambling promotion platforms. The figures come in the wake of a series of announcements by Chinese authorities in recent years around their plans to tackle the issue of cross- border gambling, including the establishment in August 2020 of a “blacklist” of overseas tourist destinations which the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said at the time was disrupting the nation’s outbound tourism market by opening casinos targeting mainland Chinese customers. The Ministry of Public Security stated in April 2021 that it planned to destroy all cross-border gambling syndicates operating in China and cut off capital and technology chains – a promise that ultimately led to the arrest and detention in late November of Alvin Chau, the CEO of Asia’s leading junket promoter, Suncity Gaming Promotion Company Limited. Suncity has since closed down its junket business. The Ministry of Public Security said it and other departments had used “a variety of means to comprehensively carry out crackdowns and governance, and have successfully destroyed the gambling and gambling networks and money laundering channels of many overseas super-large gambling groups in China.” According to the Ministry, over 1,100 criminal suspects had answered a call issued in February of last year to hand themselves in to authorities in order to be given a “lighter or mitigated punishment.” 中國公安部 表示，在加強打擊犯罪活動的 措施下，2021年偵辦跨境賭博案件1.7萬多 起，抓獲犯罪嫌疑人8萬多名。 其通報稱，過去一年還打掉網絡賭博 平台2200多個、非法支付平台和地下錢莊 1600餘個、非法技術服務團隊930餘個、賭 博推廣平台1500餘個。 近年來，內地相關部門針對跨境賭博採 取一系列措施，包括文化和旅遊部於2020 年8月建立一份境外賭博旅遊目的地「黑名 單」，列出一些開設賭場吸引中國遊客、擾 亂中國旅遊市場經營秩序的城市。 2021年4月，公安部宣佈新一輪打擊跨 境賭博活動的行動，計劃「斬斷涉賭資金 鏈、技術鏈、推廣流、賭客流」。這一行動 最終導致太陽城集團前任主席周焯華於11月 下旬被捕。太陽城目前已經關閉其博彩中介 業務。 公安部表示，已「會同有關部門綜合運 用多種手段，全面開展打擊治理，成功打掉 境外多個特大賭博集團在我國境內的招賭吸 賭網絡和洗錢等非法資金通道。」 該部門表示，自去年2月發佈敦促自首 通稿後，全國已有1100餘名境內外犯罪嫌疑 人主動投案自首，「獲得了從輕或減輕處理 的機會」。