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Beijing (ANTARA News / Xinhua Oana-) - Beijing police have arrested more than 100 people involved in online gambling syndicates operating in countries all over the bamboo curtain.

Police in Beijing, Thursday, said nine of them had been made suspects.

Police said the syndicate had a network in 21 provinces and districts.

Syndicates that make a system that allows Internet users all over the country to access the portal gambling offshore, and thus they can access the casino games in an instant of time, such as Baccarat and roulette through online video.

In Beijing in this year alone, internet system that has recorded 52 000 syndicates place bets worth 2.1 billion yuan (about 308 million U.S. dollars).

China to tighten supervision of the Police and take strong action against perpetrators of online gambling.

In a separate case, police in Provnisn Liaoning, northeast China, earlier this week said they have taken stern action against a large number of players online gambling, which make bets ahead of the ball since the World Cup.

Police in the province have arrested 40 members of the gang, and found the money at stake valued at 100 million yuan between November 2009 and March 2010. Police said the syndicate was using an internet portal that allows foreign users to make bets ball.

The members of the syndicate was using a pseudonym and did not know the identity of each other clearly.