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Chinese justice indicts over 24,000 people for online fraud

Beijing, Feb 20 (Prensa Latina) Chinese courts charged over 24,000 people in 2022 for using the country's networks to commit fraud and scam the population, according to an official report.

According to a report by the People’s Supreme Attorney General’s Office, a group of 114,000 individuals received sentences for offering technical assistance to criminals, while another 68,000 were penalized after being found guilty of collaborating in transference of stolen money.

The authorities also arrested and opened proceedings against 16,110 citizens who specifically engaged themselves in scamming the elderly.

With the participation of a number of government departments, all of those cases were settled in the context of a national campaign targeted at the suppression of internet fraud and other cybercrimes,

Justice also worked together with regulators to detect and correct legal loopholes in the protection of private data and also in neutralizing false promotion of foods, health products and insurance services.

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