China’s gambling crackdown spawned wave of illegal online casinos and crypto-crime in Asia

Global crime networks have set up shop in autonomous territories run by armed gangs across Southeast Asia, and are using them to host physical and online casinos that, in concert with crypto exchanges, have led to an explosion of money laundering, cyberfraud, and cybercrime across the region and beyond. The scenario above was …

[ChoHag]

Hmm... Government gets taken over by moralisers and ban one of the vices people use to forget the daily shit. Crime organises to provide the service in its place.

Where have we seen that one before?

[JulieM]

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it

Every so often, somebody in a position of power gets the idea to repeat something that other people have attempted previously, under some sort of misapprehension that this time, they will be successful .....

[Terry 6]

Re: Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it

Precisely. The American Prohibition Era must surely have demonstrated the inevitability oi crime benefitting from bans.And law enforcement is probably the most vulnerable aspect where the criminality can be located to any territory. Overwhelmed and under paid police forces soon become agents of organised crime.A corrupt government does seem to help too, though.

[LybsterRoy]

Re: Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it

-- The American Prohibition Era must surely have demonstrated the inevitability oi crime benefitting from bans. --

Who needs history? Just look at the drugs "industry" today.

[casinoclaw]

Re: Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it

I agree with you!