1. What is the sentencing standard for the crime of opening a casino?
The crime of opening a casino refers to whether there is an objective act of gathering people to gamble, opening a casino or taking gambling as a profession.
Article 303 of China's criminal law stipulates that those who gather people to gamble or make profits from gambling shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also be fined.
Whoever opens a casino shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined.
The sentencing standard for the crime of opening a casino is:
(1) Whoever commits this crime shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also be fined.
(2) If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and fined.
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Second, the standard of filing the crime of opening a casino
Anyone who opens a casino shall file a case for prosecution.
Setting up a gambling sites on the computer network or accepting bets on behalf of gambling sites belongs to "opening a casino".
Whoever, for the purpose of making profits, gathers people to gamble is suspected of one of the following circumstances, shall file a case for prosecution:
(1) Organizing three or more people to gamble, with a total profit of more than 5,000 yuan;
(2) Organizing three or more people to gamble, and the total amount of gambling funds is more than 50,000 yuan;