( August 3, 2026, 09:59 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Online platforms in China are required to strengthen safeguards against organized crime conducted through their services under a year-long nationwide campaign launched by the Communist Party's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission. Regulators will target criminal networks involved in personal information infringements, illicit software development, account farming, online astroturfing, traffic diversion and money laundering. Telecommunications operators, banks and internet companies will also face tighter supervision to curb abuses involving online lending and illegal debt collection. The campaign targets organized crime that uses online platforms for illegal lending, malicious compensation claims, unlawful debt collection and coordinated online manipulation. It also targets criminal groups that use stalking, harassment, intimidation and extortion as forms of "soft violence."Statement follows (in Chinese). ...
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