Establishing casino constitutes a crime in China. A necessary objective
constitutive requirement of it is the act of “providing gambling place”.
Opening a casino in WeChat is a new way of gambling which has no traditional
gambling place. Base on study the guiding Case No. 105 and Case No. 106 of the
supreme court of China as well as the interpretation of the authoritative
scholars and Article 303 of the Criminal Law supplemented by Opinions and
Interpretations, to rational expand the interpretation of relevant legal norms
can contain the facts of providing gambling place in order can define that
establishing casinos on WeChat constitute the crime of opening a casino.
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