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Beijing

39 detained over illegal lending

Police in Beijing and Macao have detained 39 suspects in an underground lending case involving more than 30 billion yuan ($4.4 billion). Beijing police said a criminal gang led by a suspect surnamed Xu registered credit card readers on the mainland and illegally brought them to casinos in Macao for gamblers to get cash using their credit cards. In addition to the suspects, a large amount of mainland currency, Hong Kong dollars, four vehicles, 32 illegally converted readers and a large number of computers and bank cards were confiscated.