53 sentenced for running casinos in east China

(Xinhua) 08:06, August 23, 2013

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Fifty-three people were given prison terms on Thursday of up to 8 years for running casinos in east China's Zhejiang Province.

Chen Guangjia, a shareholder and chief financial officer of Guangzhou Jinyi Animation Technology Co. Ltd, was sentenced to 8 years in jail for running casinos, according to Wenling People's Court ruling.

Chen was also fined 3 million yuan (486,000 U.S. dollars).

Another 44 accomplices were given terms ranging from 14 months to 90 months and fined up to 2 million yuan.

Thirty-two of them were given a reprieve.

They were accused of making profits of about 50 million yuan by providing gambling machines to a number of amusement arcades. Most of the amusement arcades are based in Wenling City.

Running casinos is illegal in China.

（Editor：WangLili、Chen Lidan）