Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch has said several payment companies behind Bangladesh-focused gambling websites are controlled by Chinese nationals.
Additional Commissioner Md. Shafiqul Islam said they obtained MFS and bank accounts from Bangladeshis for domestic transactions, then moved proceeds abroad as cryptocurrency. Prothom Alo reported the companies named in that account as Go Pay, Lucky Pay, LQ Pay, XE Pay and Cool Pay. Police said one network operated through Go Pay and named a Chinese national, Natan, as the suspected overseas boss.
In the same operation in Gazipur and Cumilla police seized 6,600 MFS-linked SIM cards. Device forensics, they said, showed about Tk 5 crore a day.
Reporting from Prothom Alo, The Daily Star and BSS, 16 July 2026.