In the Zhetisu region, under the coordination of the prosecutor's office, authorities shut down a criminal group of four people who organized card gambling on the social network TikTok. One of the suspects was a minor, the website infohub.kz reports.
According to investigators, four residents of the region used the popular TikTok platform to broadcast gambling. In live streams, they held card tournaments for money, luring in viewers and taking bets from them.
Over the life of the shadow scheme, the organizers earned 95 million tenge in illegal income. At the time of the crime, one of the key participants in the scam had not yet reached adulthood.
The court found all four participants guilty under Part 3 of Article 307 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan ("Organization of Illegal Gambling Business").
Each of the defendants was sentenced to 4 years in prison, with the confiscation of assets obtained through crime. The court's decision has not yet entered into force and may be appealed.
The supervisory authority stressed that efforts to root out and eliminate illegal gambling on the internet and social networks in the Zhetisu region are ongoing.