Chinese court passes a sentence in a 'biggest-ever' Internet gambling case

On Sunday Chinese court jailed 20 people accused of the country's biggest ever online gambling case. It considered to be the country's biggest online gambling case. The Xinhua news agency reported ringleader Qian Baochun was sentenced by the Shanghai Putuo District People's Court to six years and ordered to pay a fine of five million yuan (that equals 735,000 dollars or 567,000 euros) for establishing gambling websites. 

The other ninteen men got from one to five years imprisoned from 20,000 to one million yuan fines. As Xinhua said, the band started business in the summer of 2006 during the Germany World Cup, 

According to the report, the court heard Qian and two others opened accounts on overseas gambling websites and began to develop a network of agents and gamblers, earning 1.6 million yuan from wagers.