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West Kowloon Casino detains 137 youngest 16-year-old gamblers with beautiful female croupiers, tea, cigarettes, rice and all-inclusive banquets

2021-10-22T09:58:51.771Z


The illegal casinos of Texas Hold’em and Live Baccarat in the West Kowloon District are on the rise. Criminals are recruiting customers on social media, using "first-class locations", "beautiful dealers (dealers)", and "tea cigarettes".


The illegal casinos of Texas Hold’em and Live Baccarat in West Kowloon are on the rise. Criminals are recruiting customers on social media, using "first-class locations", "beautiful dealers (dealers)", and "tea-cigarettes". "All-inclusive banquet" and "Taxi money" attract young customers, and will provide credit services and sell marijuana.

Some young people mistakenly believe that such casinos are high-level and safe. At most, they will only be punished to gather and become gamblers. There are even young people who are lured by criminals to commit fraud and drug trafficking in the casino to make quick money.

The police launched a three-month undercover operation. The net was closed two weeks ago. As of yesterday, 9 illegal casinos, 2 fraud syndicates and 2 drug trafficking syndicates were smashed. A total of 137 people were arrested, of which 17 were under 20 years old and some were arrested. Is a student.

It is understood that the gang "He Shenghe" is involved in the manipulation of illegal casinos.


The police found that illegal casinos operating in the West Kowloon district were on the rise, and they launched an undercover operation and arrested 137 people.

(Photo by Chen Haoran)

Superintendent Alan Chung of the Criminal Division of the West Kowloon Region stated that the Criminal Division of the West Kowloon Region began an undercover law enforcement operation code-named "Quick" in July this year, sending undercover agents to infiltrate multiple illegal gambling establishments in the district.

After three months of investigation, the police launched an arrest two weeks ago. As of yesterday, nine illegal gambling establishments operated by casinos and distributed by real people were smashed. They were located in Cheung Sha Bay, Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei. Operating.

The police also uncovered 2 fraud syndicates and 2 drug trafficking syndicates.

During the operation, the police arrested a total of 137 locals, including 110 men and 27 women, aged between 16 and 43.

Among them, 79 were under the age of 25, 17 were under the age of 20, many of whom were students, and the 16-year-old arrested were gamblers.

The arrested persons were involved in more than 200 crimes, including operating or assisting in the operation of illegal gambling establishments, gambling in illegal gambling establishments, drug trafficking, conspiracy to defraud, claiming to be members of triad society, and violating disease prevention and control regulations.

The police also seized a number of electronic products, false documents, bank credit cards obtained by fraud, about 600 grams of marijuana, a large number of gambling tools, as well as a large number of chips and cash, with a total value of about 4 million Hong Kong dollars.

Criminals recruit customers on social media to attract young gamblers with "beautiful girl dealers."

(Photo by Chen Haoran)

Senior Inspector Kwong Yingxin, the case supervisor of the fifth team of the Regional Crime Squad of West Kowloon, pointed out that criminals used various methods to solicit customers, such as recruiting young women to be croupiers, providing credit services and selling marijuana to attract young people to participate in illegal gambling. .

Gamblers can use the lounge and enjoy free meals, attracting them to gamble for a long time in the venue.

At the same time, criminals took the opportunity to recruit young people to engage in quick money fraud activities, inducing young people to use fake documents to apply for credit cards, and to borrow from financial companies, and then induce them to file for bankruptcy to evade debt liability.

There are also drug cartels in the gambling stalls selling drugs to young people and soliciting young people to sell drugs.

Rent a 4,000-square-foot unit as a casino to sell marijuana smokers

In order to reduce the chance of being smashed by the police, criminals use social media Telegram or WhatsApp to solicit young customers.

Guests need to make an appointment through an intermediary, or rely on an acquaintance to introduce and act as a sponsor before they can enter the venue.

In addition, criminals have used high rents to find units of more than 4,000 square feet as gambling venues, mainly located in industrial buildings, commercial buildings and tenement houses, and will install wooden doors, steel gates, glass doors, and soundproof walls to improve concealment.

In addition, they installed closed-circuit televisions outside the gates to identify gamblers, and they would also hire "watchers" to monitor nearby streets and high places in buildings.

Pretty female croupier earns 10,000 yuan per night

The police continue to point out that the profits of operating such casinos are considerable, and the criminals collect commissions from the gamblers on the premises, and they collect 5% in every gambling game.

Some casinos have a daily betting amount of over HK$500,000.

It is understood that the hired pretty female dealers can earn 10,000 yuan per night with a basic salary and tips.

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The police also pointed out that the West Kowloon casino-style illegal gambling venues are on the rise. The police discovered 6 in 2020, but 23 have been smashed in the first nine months of this year, which is a sharp increase of nearly three times compared with the whole of last year.

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Source: hk1

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