Sometimes in the short term it may be profitable in some businesses though it is illegal. But there are the chances that in the end any person involved in running any illegal online gambling operations will be caught any time and punished. Recently the same thing is happened in China where 20 people were part of an illegal online soccer betting operation have been sentenced to jail and fined. The Shanghai court made the ruling and that 20 people were verdict to a variety of jail time last Sunday. Court spokesman Zhang Minxian said “This is possibly the country’s biggest online gambling case.”
The operation was set up like most other online gambling operations. The World Cup was the main draw for the accused people who started the online gambling sites in 2006.
Behind the operation Qian Baochun was the mastermind; that’s why, he got the harshest penalty from the court. Baochun was sentenced to six years in jail and a $735,000 fine. Other two Zou Jun and Liu Biqing were hit with heavy sentences as well. The rest of them will seventeen arrested in the sting. They will also pay fines with serve time in jail. The group knew this day had been coming since January. All of them plead guilty and had been awaiting the fate.
Those websites were set up, and commission was paid to individuals who recruited gamblers. The commission to those people would be adjusted as on how much a bettor lost. It is unknown till now how many gamblers were involved.
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