Police crack international betting ring, arresting 90

Chinese police have uncovered a major international underground online gambling ring, arresting 90 suspects and smashing more than 500 gambling websites that solicited 1 million people to gamble, the Ministry of Public Security said on Tuesday.

Police officers in Guangdong and Hunan provinces froze 3,000 bank accounts related to the case and gambling funds totaling 500 billion yuan ($78.4 billion), according to the ministry.

All of the web servers were located in Taiwan, and the service staff and some technicians who helped to solve network problems were in Hong Kong, Thailand and the Philippines, the ministry said. Most of the gamblers were from the Chinese mainland, it added.