Guangdong police shut down gambling operations

"The crackdown was a heavy blow to the gambling events that were once active in the province," he said.

Zhang vowed that the police will never relax their vigilance in the fight against gambling, despite recent progress. He urged suspected criminals to immediately stop their illegal activities and surrender themselves to the police in the months ahead.

In Jiangmen, local police detained 42 suspects in a major cross-border gambling case and broke up a gambling gang in two operations between March 22 and April 19 in the city.

Police crashed into four secret gambling dens and froze more than 13,000 bank accounts with balance totaling more than 27 million yuan. A number of computers, mobile phones and bank cards were also seized.

The police in Yunfu in western Guangdong have detained 91 suspects after busting another major cross-border gambling operation, this one headed by two local residents, surnamed Liang and Huang, on April 28.

Cash, account books, computers, mobile phones and vehicles were seized in that case.