STAKES RAISED AS CROSS-BORDER GAMBLING GANGS TARGETED
Joint police operations rescue hundreds of Chinese hostages
The Chinese visitors are picked up at airports or border checkpoints, taken to luxury hotels, served good wine and delicious food.
They are then each offered loans of gambling chips valued at more than 100,000 yuan ($14,600) to use in foreign casinos. They have to write IOUs in exchange for the chips.
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