The police in Taiwan have seized more than US$300 million (S$388 million) in World Cup bets after busting an illegal online betting ring, the authorities said on Thursday, July 2.
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Taiwan did not qualify for the World Cup, but many people on the sporting-mad island are football fans.
The police raided a house in the southern city of Tainan on July 1, Tainan City Police Department’s Fourth Precinct said in a statement. They arrested eight people and seized computers, mobile phones, ledgers and cash, the statement added.
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Five of the eight people had travelled from Hong Kong and Macau on tourist visas for the World Cup betting operation.
The outfit had allegedly raked in nearly NT$10 billion (S$405 million) in bets on World Cup matches, the police said.
They had rented the five-storey house for the period of the tournament. AFP
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