The harm of online gambling
1. Online gambling has a wider scope of participation and the amount involved is huge.
According to statistics of relevant departments, there are currently more than 400 gambling sites in the world, with an annual turnover of 60 billion US dollars. As far as China is concerned, online gambling, which has just emerged in the world for five years, has infiltrated into China since 2000, and has sprung up everywhere.
2, a large number of domestic capital outflows.
At present, domestic online gambling is mainly the infiltration of overseas online gambling. The top bookmakers of domestic online gambling are generally overseas. In addition to domestic bookmakers, a large number of gambling funds are remitted abroad through illegal financial institutions such as underground banks, resulting in a large loss of domestic funds. Because of this, online gambling provides great convenience for money laundering crimes.
3. Football, basketball and other domestic professional sports leagues have been severely impacted.
Due to the rapid development of online gambling in China, domestic sports leagues such as football and basketball have become the targets of online gambling activities. In order to obtain high profits, online gambling groups often control players, coaches, referees and clubs by bribery or intimidation, and manipulate matches by counterfeiting, which seriously pollutes the environment of domestic professional sports leagues and directly affects the healthy development of sports in China.
5. Seriously disrupted the financial order.
In addition to illegal lending and illegal financial institutions to transfer funds, online gambling also affects the healthy development of the stock and futures markets. Bankers who engage in online gambling activities in financial securities markets such as stocks and futures often interfere with the financial securities markets such as stocks and futures artificially in order to gain profits, resulting in bad trends or fluctuations, causing chaos and seriously disrupting the normal financial order of the country.