(Reporter Liu Suya) In an unlicensed lottery shop in sha he, Changping District, the running water of running black lottery tickets in one month reached 2.2 million yuan. Half a year after it opened for business, the lottery shop was seized by the police. This morning, Fu Mou, the actual operator of the lottery shop, appeared in Changping Court for trial on suspicion of illegal business operation.
The procuratorate sued that from December 2017 to June 2018, the defendant Fu Mou was employed by others to illegally issue and sell lottery tickets in sha he, Changping District without obtaining the qualification of lottery business license and relevant business license.
Fu said that the owner of the lottery station is someone else. He is only the staff of the lottery shop who is responsible for watching the store and collecting money. There are two other staff members in the store who are responsible for printing paper lottery tickets. However, he is mainly responsible for the operation of the store, and the wages of the other two are also paid by him. When he was hired, the boss once showed him a "business license", but he never saw it again afterwards, and it was not hung in the store.
Customer Zhang once bought a lottery ticket at this lottery station. He said that the gameplay here is different from ordinary welfare lottery tickets. "I thought it was a new gameplay for Fucai, so I bought five dollars."
Fu’s lottery station sells instant lottery tickets, which are awarded every three minutes. There are two ways to play: guessing numbers and guessing poker. Although the lottery station is small, the running water is very considerable. The staff said that when the business is good, the daily profit of the store can reach 2,000 to 3,000 yuan.
This is a conservative estimate. According to the opinion of the appraisal agency, from May 4 to June 4, 2018, the total sales amounted to 2.2 million yuan, of which the illegal profit was more than 90,000 yuan.
On the evening of June 5 this year, Fu was arrested by the police in the lottery shop, but the "boss" claimed by Fu has never been heard from. The police seized two lottery machines on the spot, with cash of more than 17,000 yuan. After identification, the lottery machine was not recognized as a gambling machine.
According to the certificate issued by the Welfare Lottery Distribution Office in Changping District, after inquiring about the registration license information and on-site inspection, Fu and others sold lottery tickets without authorization, and the types of lottery tickets sold were not filed. According to relevant laws and regulations, they were issued and sold lottery tickets without authorization.
Changping Procuratorate believes that Fu, as the actual operator of the lottery station, issued and sold lottery tickets without the approval of the state, disrupting the market order, and the circumstances are serious, so he should be investigated for criminal responsibility for the crime of illegal business operation.
"I really don’t know that it is illegal to work here," Fu acknowledged the accusation of the procuratorate. Because there are many lottery shops on the roadside, he didn’t care when applying. "I originally planned to get married during the Spring Festival, but now I have no chance."
Fu’s defender believes that Fu is only a basic employee of the lottery station, and he gets a fixed salary. The store’s profit of more than 90,000 yuan is the income of the lottery station, not the illegal income of Fu, so he asks the court to give him a lighter punishment.
The case was not pronounced in court.