China Jails 20 in Online Gambling Case - Gambling Online Magazine

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Twenty defendants have been given sentences ranging from one to six years by a Shanghai court yesterday in a crackdown on those breaking online gambling laws in the country.

The 20 accused were said to have stakes exceeding 6.6 billion yuan (US$877 million) and have earned profits of more than 1.6 million yuan in illegal soccer bets starting from the World Cup in Germany in August 2006 reaching until May 2008.

Zhang Minxian, a spokesman for the court said, "This is possibly the country's biggest online gambling case."

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