{"id":8033,"date":"2017-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/asia\/crown-resorts-14-chinese-employees-now-facing-the-charges-after-being-capture-since-2016\/"},"modified":"2017-05-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T00:00:00","slug":"crown-resorts-14-chinese-employees-now-facing-the-charges-after-being-capture-since-2016","status":"publish","type":"asia","link":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/asia\/crown-resorts-14-chinese-employees-now-facing-the-charges-after-being-capture-since-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown Resorts, 14 Chinese employees now facing the charges after being capture since 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\">The fate of the 14 employees of Australian casino operator Crown Resorts Limited being held in China for &ldquo;gambling crimes&rdquo; could soon become clearer after police formally turned the cases over Shanghai&rsquo;s Baoshan District People&rsquo;s Procurator.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\">The employees, which include three Australian citizens in Jason O&rsquo;Connor, Jerry Xuan and Pan Dan alongside Malaysian Alfread Gomez, were arrested after an October 13 sting operation and have since been languishing in a Shanghai detention facility although the most recent move means that law enforcement officials have now completed their investigations with formal charges expected to follow soon. <span><a href=\"\/asia\/philippines-deports-chineses-involved-in-illegal-gambling-activities\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #00f; text-decoration: underline;\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>(READ HE<span>RE PHILIPPINES DEPORTS CHINESE&rsquo;S INVOLVED IN ILLEGAL GAMBLING ACTIVITIES)<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"5\">&ldquo;As such, the newspaper cited Shanghai criminal lawyer Si Weijiang as declaring that the accused could face prison terms of up to three years if convicted&rdquo;<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\">The employees of the Melbourne-based firm were detained by police in Shanghai as part of an operation dubbed &ldquo;Duanlian&rdquo;, which in Chinese translates <strong>as &ldquo;to break the chain&rdquo;<\/strong>. It is illegal to promote or organize gambling activities in mainland China and the government has long been attempting to curtail its nationals from engaging in overseas gambling by terminating the personal and financial links between foreign casino operators and their mainland clients. Led by President Xi Jinping, officials perceive that the activity is linked to corruption, money laundering and domestic instability particularly as many of the gamblers that have gone broke as a result of gambling have been small business owners. <span><a href=\"\/asia\/china-gets-in-track-hunting-illegal-gambling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>(READ SO: <span>CHINA GETS IN TRACK HUNTING ILLEGAL GAMBLING)<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font size=\"4\">The fact that the cases were handed to a district court rather than a city counterpart means that the employees are likely to face lower-level charges rather than those associated with more serious offences such as money laundering.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fate of the 14 employees of Australian casino operator Crown Resorts Limited being held in China for \u201cgambling crimes\u201d could soon become clearer after police formally turned the cases over Shanghai\u2019s Baoshan District People\u2019s Procurator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5146,"menu_order":595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3978],"class_list":{"0":"post-8033","1":"asia","2":"type-asia","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-crown-resorts-china-shangai-detention","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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