Dozens of Chinese public security officers move in formation to deploy.
They raid a criminal gang's office, arresting fleeing gang members and those hiding in safe houses one after another.
Gambling funds were seized alongside criminal accounting ledgers.
Chinese public security authorities launched a nationwide crackdown on criminal syndicates starting early this month.
As a result, more than 1,000 criminal organizations and approximately 8,200 gang members were apprehended.
Chinese public security authorities announced that they simultaneously solved about 5,400 cybercrime cases linked to them.
It was revealed that some organizations systematically committed various crimes, including lending money over the internet to people in financial need at exorbitant annual interest rates of up to 400 percent and extorting them, insurance fraud, and filing malicious online civil complaints accompanied by blackmail.
[Chinese Public Security Official: New types of crimes that severely infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of citizens have been selected as the core target of this special crackdown. This intensive crackdown is only the beginning.]
In the past, traditional criminal organizations in China, commonly known as triads, engaged in rampant violence and extortion, but their numbers have significantly decreased due to persistent eradication campaigns.
However, organized crime methods such as illegal online lending and fraud have become more sophisticated, turning into a social issue.
This is a similar situation to South Korea, where so-called MZ generation gangsters have shifted their criminal methods to operating illegal gambling sites and trading drugs online.
Chinese public security authorities stated that these arrests are only the beginning and vowed to intensively crack down on criminal syndicates for the next year.
Reported by Han Sang-woo | Video by Choi Hye-young | Produced by SBS Digital News
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