
The Taichung District Court convicted 45 defendants in a case involving organized crime, money laundering and bribery involving the Jiuzhou Group, and fined them a total of NT$579.35 million.
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Jiuzhou Group has long been operating online gambling websites such as LEO, THA, and KUBET, and handles cash flow through a third-party payment platform developed by Ganggu Company.
The first trial of the Jiuzhou Gambling Case was pronounced today (2nd). The Taichung District Court sentenced 35 natural persons and 10 corporate legal persons, a total of 45 defendants, for crimes such as organized crime, corruption, delivery of bribes and improper interests, and money laundering. It's more like "sky-high bills" were poured out, totaling up to 579.35 million yuan. Among them, Chen Zhenggu, the president of Jiuzhou, was sentenced to 11 years in August and fined 90 million yuan, and the most beautiful director Xu Peijing was sentenced to 7 years and fined 12 million yuan.
The Taichung District Court today sentenced 45 defendants at once. In addition to Chen Zhenggu and Xu Peijing, former TV reporter Shi Zhenkang was also sentenced to 5 years and fined 10 million yuan for the crime of manipulating or directing a criminal organization. The remaining 32 natural persons were sentenced to prison terms ranging from May to 5 years and August for crimes such as organizing and money laundering.
According to statistics, 35 natural persons were fined a total of 244.35 million yuan; in addition, 10 corporate legal persons, including Xianggu, Ou Bosen, Weiqun, Ganggu, and Yiyiqiqi, were also fined a total of 335 million yuan. Adding the two together, the total amount directly exceeded 570 million yuan.
The court found that Jiuzhou Group has long been operating online gambling websites such as LEO, THA, and KUBET, providing gamblers from Taiwan, China, and Southeast Asia with bets, and then handling huge cash flows through its many companies. Among them, Ganggu Company developed the third-party payment platform "OnePaid" and became an important tool for the group to connect cash flows.
Chen Zhenggu was identified as the president of the Jiuzhou Group, with a private club on Longfu Road, Nantun, Taichung as its base. The group has the characteristics of a sustainable, profit-making and structural criminal organization. The collegial panel believed that the Jiuzhou Group was huge in scale and the amount of crimes committed was huge. , seriously damaging money laundering prevention and financial order; Chen and Xu Geng caused Lin Mingzuo to leak secrets in violation of his duties through bribery, seriously endangering the prosecutor's investigation. In addition, after the group was searched, evidence was destroyed on a large scale, and there were excuses, so they were sentenced separately.

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