Live online shows that promote gambling bet on lax supervision

BEIJING NEWS REPORTED THAT the online platform Xingqiu is suspected of organizing gambling in the guise of live broadcasts. It recruits young women to host online guessing competitions and attract people to bet with virtual currency that must be purchased with real money. Some players have reportedly lost over 1 million yuan ($145,180) within a few months. The newspaper comments:

The Criminal Law unambiguously prohibits gambling. With the development of the internet, in 2006, the Supreme People's Court issued a judicial interpretation that specified online gambling was also a crime. In 2010, the court further explained details about the judicial explanation.

According to the criminal law and the interpretation, the organizers of the online gambling broadcasts have obviously committed a crime.