The Uzbek Interior Ministry announced the dismantling of an electronic gambling network in Tashkent that was operating under the guise of technical consulting, and arrested 11 people after seizing illegal financial transactions worth $4 million through platforms with 60,000 users.
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Uzbek criminal law imposes penalties of up to 10 years in prison for organizing illegal gambling.
This was reported by the press service of the country's Ministry of Interior.
A report published by the ministry on its Telegram channel stated that employees of the Anti-Cybercrime Department of the Ministry of Interior stopped, inside one of the business centers in the Yashnabad district of the capital, Tashkent, the activity of a company that was providing online gambling services under the guise of consulting services in the field of computer technology, and arrested 11 people in connection with that.
According to the press service, the detainees organized the reception of bets through electronic platforms they created, and the number of users of them reached about 60 thousand people from Uzbekistan and the Gulf countries.
The operation resulted in the confiscation of servers, computers, laptops, mobile phones, bank cards and calling cards, in addition to money and other physical evidence.
The Ministry of Interior added that examining the computers revealed information related to the implementation of financial transactions amounting to $4 million during the past six months, noting that a criminal case had been opened in this regard under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code.
The article on “organizing and conducting gambling and other risk-based games” stipulates a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.
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