Defendant was sentenced to 8 years in jail in Hong Kong
 November 20, 2008, 4:01 pm (7 months ago)Verdict on the assumed ringleader of an online gambling operation which supplied gambling services to Chinese clients from a Myanmar-based center has been verified by a superior court, sentencing the accused to jail for eight years, and charging him 20 million yuan (about $3 million US), according to a reports by Chinese news agency Xinhua.
Administrators at the Yunnan High People's Court explained to the agency that Hong Kong resident Tam Chi-wai built a gambling house in Myanmar in 1999 and then began developing an online betting network. He and these collaborators built some gambling Websites and installed the computer servers in Guangzhou and Dongguan in the southern Guangdong Province.
One of the Websites drew 5,198 signed up players from August 2006 to March 2007, and the venture accomplished income of 8.68 billion yuan in wagered money and over 278 million yuan in illegitimate incomes
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