China plans online gambling crackdown

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The raid on online gambling rings reportedly involves 13 different gambling websites with over 100,000 registered users who had collectively wagered over RMB350 million ($55 million) before the crackdown.

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You didn’t have to be Nostradamus to see this one coming, and thanks to Casinomaven for bringing the news to our attention. China’s decided to turn it’s internet filtering blowtorch onto net gambling in a crackdown that, according to a Ministry of Public Security will target “major and severe cases, arrest domestic and foreign groups […]