A few days ago, the People's Court of Guixi City, Jiangxi Province, concluded the first instance of a crime of opening a casino, sentenced the defendant, Jiang, to fixed-term imprisonment of five years and a fine of 25000 yuan, sentenced the defendant, Gao, to fixed-term imprisonment of two years, suspended for three years and a fine of 20000 yuan. The illegal income of 15000 yuan handed over by the defendant Jiang and 10000 yuan handed over by the defendant Gao shall be confiscated according to law and turned over to the state treasury. The court found that during the period from January 2020 to October 2021, Jiang, the defendant, set up an online gambling group for profit, and organized personnel to participate in online gambling activities in the software by publishing two-dimensional codes of the software in the group, and profited from it. Later, the defendant Mr. Jiang employed the defendants Mr. Gao and Mr. Gui (handled separately) as the finance department, responsible for issuing gambling links and settling gambling funds. In the process of organizing gambling, the losers sent the gambling funds to Jiang and Gao through WeChat and Alipay. After the two defendants drew 10% from the big winner, they paid the remaining gambling funds to the winner. Through investigation, from January 2020 to October 2021, the defendant Jiang and the defendant Gao received more than 3.923 million yuan of gambling money through WeChat account and Alipay account. On March 6, 2022, the defendant Jiang was arrested by the public security organ. On April 18, 2022, the defendant, Mr. Gao, volunteered to surrender to the public security organ. After arriving at the case, the defendant Jiang returned 15000 yuan of illegal income, and the defendant Gao returned 10000 yuan of illegal income. After the trial, the court held that the defendants Jiang and Gao, for the purpose of making profits, collaborated with others to organize others to gamble on the Internet and make profits. The circumstances were serious, and the acts of both defendants constituted the crime of opening casinos. After arriving at the case, the defendant, Jiang, truthfully confessed his crime, with frank circumstances, and could be given a lighter punishment according to law. Gao, the defendant, voluntarily surrendered to the case and truthfully confessed the facts of his crime. If he had surrendered himself, he could be given a mitigated punishment according to law. The defendant Jiang returned 15000 yuan of stolen goods and the defendant Gao returned 10000 yuan of stolen goods, which can be given a lighter punishment according to the circumstances. The court made the above judgment according to the facts of the two defendants' crimes, their attitude of pleading guilty, the situation of being brought to justice, and the situation of returning stolen goods. The judgment has now become legally effective. (Liu Xinshe)