A migrant worker from the northern Chinese city of Baoding "lent" three credit cards under his name to friends to offset 2,500 yuan ($380) of debt he owed. He never imagined he would later be arrested for the illegal sale of credit cards that were used by criminal groups to launder money for online gambling.
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In the first nine months of 2020, police cracked down on 1,700 online gambling platforms and 1,400 underground banks involving more than 1 trillion yuan ($153 billion) of illegal transactions. © Reuters
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