Japanese men among 31 arrested in Taiwan for providing gambling software to online casinos – Inside Asian Gaming

The criminal police department of Taiwans internal affairs raided an office in the Neihu District of Taipei that was occupied by a UK-based game software developer on suspicion of gambling offences on 6 July.

As revealed at a press conference on 7 July and reported by Taiwans Zhongyang Tongxunshe, a total of 31 employees of Gamatron Studios were arrested, including a Japanese man who worked at the Taiwanese office and a Japanese executive.

According to police, the company provided software to 45 online casino platforms, taking between 5% and 8% of the profit from each bet placed by a customer as compensation. Police believe the total amount gambled by customers from January of last year amounted to NTD 2.5 billion (US$85 million).

In the raid, 36 computers, 35 cellphones and NTD 560,000 (US$19,000) in cash was seized along with accounting books and gambling materials.

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