BUSTED: The group was led by two men from Guangdong's Shantou city, who built around 200 gambling websites mostly using servers based in Thailand, the report said.
BEIJING: Chinese police have rounded up more than 1,000 people involved in an online gambling network, freezing bank accounts worth about 330mil yuan (RM195.30mil), state news agency Xinhua said.
The suspects were detained in a sweep from June to December last year and 570 people have been put in formal detention, Xinhua said, citing police in the southern province of Guangdong.
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