China plans online gambling crackdown

China plans to crack down on the online gambling industry, including the banks and websites that support it, the Ministry of Public Security said. The campaign will "concentrate on investigating major and important cases of online gambling, knock out domestic and foreign groups that organize online gambling, and severely punish the criminal elements", the statement said. The crackdown, to be conducted between February and August, was agreed to by eight government bodies including the Supreme Court, Propaganda bureau, the Central Bank and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.