By Elena Chong, Court Correspondent
A MAN was jailed for three months and fined a total of $80,000 on Monday for distributing online casino games to shops.
Cheh Back Hai, 59, pleaded guilty to seven counts of helping to manage a common gaming house at various Housing Board heartlands and one of profiting $48,000 from the gaming business at one of the outlets.
The offences were committed between October last year and May this year.
A party of Gambling Suppression Branch officers raided his home at Block 420 Bukit Batok West 2 on May 14 and arrested him and another man, who has yet to be charged.
Cash of $152,500 and exhibits relating to the internet casino gambling were seized.
A district court heard that Cheh, known as a "senior master agent'' for a game, provided the line to 19 shops. In return, he got a 5 per cent commission of the profits form these shops.
The money seized were from the profits he earned by supplying the casino game line.
Anyone could play the casino games using the computers as no skill was needed.
Seventeen other similar charges were taken into consideration.
He could have been fined between $5,000 and $50,000 and jailed for up to three years on each charge.
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'Master agent' fined $80,000 for supplying online casino games 
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