The Intermediate People's Court of Xuchang City, Henan Province, China, recently issued a final judgment on a cross-border online gambling case. The main culprit, Chen Moujia, was sentenced to six years and six months in prison for smuggling into Cambodia to engage in online gambling activities and illegally profiting 1.71 million yuan.
The case revealed that since 2018, the Great Wall Gambling Group, led by Wang Moumou, established online gambling platforms in Cambodia, the Philippines, and other places, attracting Chinese gamblers through websites like "Zhongcai" and "Yicai".
Chen Moujia served as the head of the customer service department in the group for 46 months, managing the finance and customer service teams. The first trial found him guilty of illegally profiting 2.06 million yuan and sentenced him to seven years in prison. After an appeal, the second trial court adjusted his work duration and the amount of illegal gains based on new evidence, reducing his sentence to six and a half years.
Another accomplice, Chen Mouyi, who was in charge of the logistics department, was found guilty of managing employee visas and logistics affairs, illegally profiting 510,000 yuan, and the original sentence of three years and four months was upheld. The court also ordered the confiscation of 680,000 yuan of illegal gains already returned by the two and continued to pursue the remaining 1.54 million yuan.
This case exposes the dark gray industry chain of cross-border gambling gangs luring Chinese nationals to smuggle abroad and participate in crimes through high salaries. Despite the main culprit's sentence reduction on appeal, his organization of online gambling and repeated smuggling across borders still received severe legal punishment, highlighting China's continued high-pressure crackdown on cross-border gambling crimes.
