In China’s ongoing effort to stem the growing Internet gambling trade within the country, Chinese law enforcement agencies detained more than 1,300 people in Shanghai involved in Internet gambling. The raid also targeted private homes, net cafes, and nightclubs, where Chinese authorities believed Internet gambling was taking place.

This was not the first raid on Internet gambling operators in China. Earlier, in the month of January, six hundred people involved in online gambling were arrested and CNY23m (1.5m pounds) were seized. Also, approximately 220 people were arrested in a series of raids on a “clandestine Internet-based gambling company”. Chinese officials claim that the Taiwan-based gambling business has been working with known Chinese criminals for almost a year now. In fact, in the most recent raid, two of the people arrested out of the 1,300 are on China’s national “most-wanted” list and are know to have ties with illegal online gambling businesses.