A woman in Suzhou was sentenced for gambling in northern Myanmar 66 times in 4 years by smuggling and forging documents.

Little mongla in Myanmar, which is adjacent to Menghai County in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, is known as "Little Las Vegas" and has great attraction to gamblers.

On March 16th, the upstream journalist learned from the People’s Procuratorate of Wujiang District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province that recently, a woman in Suzhou City, Yu Mou, was sentenced for the crime of crossing the border illegally. From September 2016 to June 2020, the woman used forged documents, smuggling and other means to cross the border 66 times.

Yu has repeatedly crossed the border by smuggling. All the pictures in this article are upstream news pictures.

Yu, a 45-year-old woman, is a self-employed person in Wujiang. In 2015, when chatting with friends, Yu learned that there were many casinos in Xiaomengla, Myanmar. A friend suggested that you can fly from Shanghai or Hangzhou to the border between Yunnan and North Myanmar, and the other party will have a special person to pick up and drop off. After entering North Myanmar by crossing the border illegally, special people will be arranged to pick them up, and the round-trip air tickets are free.

Soon after, Yu Mou and his friends and a group of people took a variety of means of transportation, and arrived at Little mongla through the roundabout mountain road at the border of Daluo Town in Xishuangbanna.

Zhang Neng, deputy director of the First Procuratorial Department of Wujiang District Procuratorate, said that in 2016, Yu met his gambling friend Wang when he participated in gambling in Myanmar. Considering the risk of smuggling by mountain road, with Wang’s help, Yu defrauded the entry and exit permit to participate in gambling activities in northern Myanmar four times by fictional employee identity and related materials of a trading company in Xishuangbanna. Each pass is valid for one year.

For cross-border gambling, Yu forged his identity and defrauded the entry and exit pass.

"The so-called alternative planting project is actually because poppy was originally planted in Myanmar, and the local government encourages farmers or other relevant agricultural employees to stop planting opium and replace the project of planting other cash crops. In fact, Yu himself has no knowledge of this project and knows nothing about it. He completely forged such a reason and defrauded the entry and exit documents. " Zhang neng introduced.

Around the end of 2020, Suzhou police found the clue that Yu had stolen the country (border) during the investigation of entry-exit related work. After investigation, from September 2016 to June 2020, Yu Mou crossed the border between China and Myanmar from Daluo Port and Mangxin Port in Yunnan for a total of 66 times and went to Little mongla for gambling. Yu was sentenced to four months’ criminal detention and fined 3000 yuan for the crime of crossing the country (border).

Yu claimed to be engaged in the alternative planting industry, but actually he didn’t understand the industry.

Upstream journalists learned that in 2021, Wujiang District People’s Procuratorate handled 8 cases of crossing the country (border), and 29 suspects were all suspected of cross-border gambling. According to Yu’s confession, there are "gunmen" in the hotels where he lived during overseas gambling. At the same time, after the gambler lost all his funds, the criminals will take the opportunity to lend usury and drain the gamblers completely before calling his family. Ask for the so-called ransom.

"According to the parties concerned, after arriving in northern Myanmar, they were illegally detained by local illegal personnel and gangs, and some of them were still held in water dungeons. When he was rescued, the skin of his two calves had festered. If the police are not rescued in time, personal safety may not be guaranteed. " Zhang neng said.

Upstream journalists have learned that in many cases of cross-border gambling by sneaking across the country (border), criminals usually attract and attract domestic gamblers to gamble abroad by providing free entry and exit services, free round-trip air tickets, accommodation and tourism.

Zhang Neng introduced that many suspects who sneaked across the border to participate in cross-border gambling have a subjective misunderstanding. They think that it is not illegal to participate in gambling abroad. And no matter which way, as long as the entry and exit documents are handled, it is not an act of stealing across the country (border). From a legal point of view, defrauding entry and exit documents and holding such documents to enter or leave the country also constitutes the crime of stealing the border.