Illegal Casinos in Danger: China to Encourage Snitches
In one of the provinces of China, citizens of the country have received an additional opportunity to earn money. Now, the authorities of the Celestial Empire will pay for information about the organization of illegal games. Thus, the so-called "snitching" receives a legislative platform.
As journalists learned, the reward amount can be very decent money - up to 7 thousand dollars in yuan! The State Department of Public Security believes that illegal gambling is an international crime. And this is despite the fact that underground casinos, as well as the popular game of Mahjong in China, are very common.
According to one government official, a fairly large number of citizens use various VPN services and illegal credit organizations to make transactions on bookmaker sites and play in underground casinos. According to very rough estimates, the turnover of shadow gambling in China is almost 150 billion dollars a year. Let us recall: if we do not take into account the legal gambling establishments of China, which are located in Macau, the only permitted types of gambling entertainment in the country are state lotteries, which clearly does not satisfy the demand for gambling of the huge population of the country.
In connection with all of the above, it becomes clear why the Ministry of Public Security created an online platform where “concerned” citizens can report violations in the gambling industry. In addition, a representative of the People’s Bank of China said that the credit institution continues to fight payment services that allow you to create gaming accounts in foreign online casinos and bookmakers. In the near future, the rules for making money transactions will be tightened. There is no doubt that the successful experience of the PRC can be adopted by those countries where things with underground gambling are approximately the same. First of all, we are talking about Russia and other CIS countries.
