Battling Online Crime

A total of 710 people were charged with online crimes in the first nine months of this year, up 80.7 percent year on year, China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) said on October 16.

The SPP indicted 334 cases in the same period, an increase of 82.5 percent year on year, according to SPP spokesperson Wang Songmiao.

“Cybercrimes are increasingly organized and operated in groups, especially cyber gambling and fraud,” Wang said.

“We have seen more and more forms of cybercrime, including cyber attacks, cyber fraud, cyber pornography and cyber gambling. Also, crimes of infringement of personal information, online rumorspreading, cyber blackmail, cyber