Society
Illegal soccer gambling nets $14.6B each year
By Zuo Likun (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-02-01 15:07
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Underground football gambling in China nets about 1 trillion yuan (US$14.65 billion) annually, according to a leading football figure cited by the Jinghua Times.
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He urged the passage of a lottery bill as one of the many measures to tackle rampant underground gambling.
The latest disclosure?comes at?a time when?the Chinese Super League (CSL) is already embattled in bribery and match-fixing scandals, with three top soccer officials held in a crackdown.
