Is it okay to surrender for online gambling?

You can surrender. If a criminal who engages in online gambling voluntarily surrenders, if it constitutes a crime, he or she should generally be given a lighter or reduced punishment by the people's court, but he may still face the following penalties:

1. Those who gather together to gamble for profit may be detained, controlled, and sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, and shall also be fined.

2. If the perpetrator opens a casino, he may face fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or surveillance, and a fine;

3. If the circumstances are serious, he may be sentenced to not less than five years and ten years in prison. to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 10 years and to a fine.

The conditions for surrender are:

1. Automatically surrender after committing a crime. Voluntary surrender generally refers to the act of voluntarily placing oneself under the legal control of the case-handling agencies and accepting review and judgment without the facts of the crime or the criminal suspect being discovered by the public security, procuratorate, trial and other case-handling agencies.

2. Truthfully confess your crime. That is, after the criminal voluntarily surrenders, he truthfully confesses the main facts of his crime.

Legal basis:

Article 67 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China"

Surrender yourself, voluntarily surrender to the police after committing a crime, and truthfully confess your crime The crime is to surrender. Criminals who surrender may be given lighter or reduced penalties. Among them, those who commit relatively minor crimes may be exempted from punishment.

Article 303

The crime of gambling; the crime of opening a casino for the purpose of profit, gathering people to gamble or gambling as a business shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance , and impose a fine.

Whoever opens a casino shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or surveillance, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than 10 years, and shall also be fined.