How China's e-commerce giants enable illegal online gambling

Illegal business has exploded amid COVID-19 pandemic

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By the end of September, Chinese authorities had launched investigations of more than 8,800 cross-border gambling cases and arrested more than 60,000 suspects. © Reuters

YUAN RUIYANG, YE ZHANQI and HAN WEI, Caixin

A dark corner of the cyber world benefited from increasingly convenient internet-based payment and logistics services as e-commerce soars amid the pandemic: illegal online gambling.

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