Gambling crime refers to the act of gathering people to gamble or engage in gambling for the purpose of making profits. According to the law, anyone who, for the purpose of making profits, falls under any of the following circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also be fined if he gathers people to gamble as stipulated in Article 303 of the Criminal Law:
Organizing the above gambling, and the cumulative amount of profits from tapping has reached above;
Organize above gambling, and the accumulated amount of gambling funds reaches more than yuan;
Organize above gambling, and the number of participants accumulatively reaches above;
Organizing citizens of the People's Republic of China or above to gamble abroad and collecting kickbacks and referral fees from them.
[Legal Basis]
Article 303 of the Criminal Law stipulates that anyone who, for the purpose of making profits, gathers people to gamble or engages in gambling shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also be fined.