Police in the Chinese city of Qishi, China's Zhejiang province, recently dismantled a gambling ring placed through a website set up overseas, mainland Chinese media reported on Thursday.

The report claimed that the suspects gained 50 million yuan ($7.3 million) in illegal profits from accepting players' bets on the "online baccarat" game.

Since Sept. 1, police have arrested 21 suspects suspected of being involved in internet gambling charges. This was the second crackdown in Cixi this year, after police detained 50 people suspected of being involved in the same illegal gambling incident in late March.

Recent media reports have said that the illegal online betting case is still under investigation. However, the reports did not clarify whether the gambling website is related to casino proxy gambling. The latter refers to the designation of a trusted individual as a proxy by a gambler who is not physically present in a casino, and is allowed in some regulated gambling markets.

Two ringleaders suspected of being linked to a "baccara gambling website" in the Philippines cited police as reported by China's Legal Daily on Thursday.

Last month, police in Jiangsu Province disrupted an international gambling ring placed on a website set up in the Philippines. At the time, the state-run Xinhua news agency said 50 suspects had been arrested in Shanghai, eastern China's Zhejiang and southern Fujian and Guangdong provinces, and that it had returned from the Philippines and surrendered to officials before arresting six suspects elsewhere in the mainland.

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