Police maintain pressure to combat online fraud

Online fraud remains a severe problem, as perpetrators have developed more covert and diversified means, a report has found.

Chinese police have solved 315,000 online fraud cases, busted 16,000 gangs for fraud and caught 146,000 people suspected of fraud-related offenses since June 2015, when a national team consisting of 23 government departments, led by the Ministry of Public Security, was set up to combat fraud in cyberspace.

In the same period, Chinese prosecutors approved the detention of 79,000 people suspected of online fraud, of whom 77,000 were charged, according to the report jointly issued on Tuesday by the ministry, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and Tencent, an internet and technology giant.