China: 20 jailed over billion dollar online gambling

16 February 2009

SHANGHAI, China -- As reported by China Daily: "Twenty people involved in a 1-billion US-dollar online soccer gambling case were fined and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to six years by a Shanghai court on Sunday.

"The Shanghai Putuo District People's Court sentenced Qian Baochun, 41, the prime accused, to six years imprisonment and ordered him to pay a fine of five million yuan (US$735,000) for establishing gambling websites. The other 19 convicted, including Zou Jun and Liu Biqing, the other two gang leaders, were sentenced to jail terms from one to five years with a fine ranging from 20,000 yuan to 1.01 million yuan, the court ruled.

"The gang started its business in the summer of 2006, when the soccer World Cup was held in Germany..."

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