Introduction
What's the value of this
Review of the merits
During the period from may to july 2024, mei-i purchased two “fishers” on a shivering platform, installed in a pool club in one of its large counties, where they specialize in organizing gambling. The gamblers pay the money by scanning the two-dimensional scale on the “fish-player”, and the system automatically converts the money to the equivalent points for the gambler to gamble on the machine, while the money paid goes directly into the account of the company to which the “fish-player belongs”. At the end of the gambling period, the gambler may exchange the cigarettes for a certain amount of cash at a different price, either on the basis of the cigarettes obtained in the credit exchange machine. After extracting and deducting the costs of cigarettes placed in the machines, the company returned the rest of the gambling money to mejiao as a real profit。
In july 2024, during an inspection by the civilian police of the public security bureau of the fang dynasty district, two of the “fish-players” involved in the crime were seized in accordance with the law on suspicion of setting up a gambling machine in the house of the pool club. In may-july 2024, a bank account in may/july 2024 received a total of over $178,000 from a third party for the return of the money from the platform. In august 2024, mejiao arrived on his own initiative on the basis of a telephone call from the public security bureau of the grand fang county。
The people's procuratorate of the tai fong county has examined the fact that the defendant, mei, has committed an offence under article 203, paragraph 2, of the criminal code of the people's republic of china in order to obtain an illegal benefit, set up a gambling machine and provide premises, organize gambling activities involving more than 178,000 dollars, and that the crime is clear and the evidence is solid and sufficient and that he should be held criminally liable for the offence of opening a casino. The court was then prosecuted in accordance with the law. After trial, the court sentenced the defendant, may, to one year and six months' imprisonment, two years' probation and a fine of 5,000 yuan。
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Criminal law of the people's republic of china, article 203 (2)
If a casino is opened, the penalty shall be imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, detention or supervision, and a fine; in serious cases, the penalty shall be imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and not exceeding ten years, with a fine。
Prosecutor's reminder
The nature of the gaming machine is the instrument of gambling, regardless of its appearance, whether in the form of profit-exchange cigarettes or cash, and its unlawful nature as a game of casinos and illegal profits does not change. Here is a warning to those operators who are in trouble: “swipe the ball” is “out of bounds” and the red line of legitimate business is untouchable. It is important that normal entertainment venues are not turned into a haven for criminal offences, and that they end up facing severe penalties under the law。
