Please agree to our privacy policy to enable news listening. (Central News Agency, Jakarta, comprehensive foreign news report on the 9th) Indonesian officials said that the police arrested 321 foreigners, including 228 Vietnamese and 57 from China, during a raid to crack down on illegal online gambling today. Reuters reported that police arrested 321 suspects in an office building in central Jakarta. Indonesian authorities are cracking down on online gambling, which is banned locally, as well as transnational crime syndicates. Wira Satya Triputra, director of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Indonesian Police, said at a press conference that the arrested suspects include 228 Vietnamese, 57 Chinese, 13 Burmese, 11 Laos, 5 Thais and 3 Cambodians. These suspects have been operating online gambling for two months. Vera pointed out that of the 321 people arrested, 275 were charged with violating gambling regulations in Indonesian criminal law, which can lead to a maximum sentence of nine years in prison. Vera emphasized that these foreigners knew that they came to Indonesia to operate online gambling and mainly targeted overseas customers. Untung Widyatmoko, an official of the Indonesian branch of Interpol, said at a press conference that the current trend is that online gambling bases are moving from many cities in Cambodia to Indonesia. (Translator: Gao Zhaofen/Version: Xu Chongzhe) 1150509 Support the Central News Agency’s choice to stand with the facts. Every donation you make is a force to protect press freedom. Small-amount sponsorship downloads the Central News Agency’s “First-hand News” APP to get the latest news in real time. The text, pictures and audio and video of this website may not be reproduced, publicly broadcast or publicly transmitted and used without authorization.
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