At noon on November 22, the "Dujiangyan Irrigation Project Public Security Bureau" issued a police report stating that our bureau had investigated and found that Chen Moujie (male, 39 years old) was suspected of opening a casino. At present, Chen Moujie has been arrested in accordance with the law. The case is under further investigation.
It is reported that Chen Shaojie, the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Douyu Company, a well-known domestic live streaming platform, is mentioned in the above notification. Previously, Douyu announced that Chen Shaojie, the chairman of the company's board of directors and CEO, was arrested by Chengdu police around November 16, 2023. Douyu stated in the announcement that "no formal notice has been received regarding the investigation into Chen Shaojie or the apparent reasons for his arrest".
Previously, news about the involvement of gambling on Douyu platform spread online, and the gambling situation in the live streaming rooms of the Douyu platform's accounts, "Send Nine Outdoor" and "Changsha Rural Daredevil Team", had attracted widespread attention.
At the end of 2022, the court ruled that three people in "Sending Nine Outdoor" used a live streaming platform to open a casino and attract nearly 120 million yuan, constituting the crime of opening a casino. This case was the first nationwide live streaming platform gambling case supervised and handled by the Ministry of Public Security, and was selected as one of the top ten typical cases of the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court in 2022. It is worth noting that the court hearing the gambling case of "send to nine outdoor" is the People's Court of Dujiangyan Irrigation Project City, Sichuan Province, which belongs to the same place as the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project Public Security Bureau who arrested Chen Shaojie this time, and the suspected charges are the same.
In addition, when reporting on the live broadcast room of the "Changsha Rural Expendable Squad" under the account "Qingfengxia" of China Youth Network, it was found that this gambling live broadcast room, which had swallowed 177 million yuan a year, was selected as one of the "Top 10 Top Broadcasters of the Year on the Douyu Live Platform" on January 16, 2021. At the award ceremony, the host described the two anchors as "simple in character" and "tireless in their efforts", and compared the exposed gambling scenes, it was considered a "slap in the face".