{"id":16706,"date":"2021-04-08T16:12:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=16706"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:30:39","slug":"police-in-macau-and-mainland-china-bust-gambling-scam-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/police-in-macau-and-mainland-china-bust-gambling-scam-ring","title":{"rendered":"Police in Macau and China bust ring that scammed gamblers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Macau\u2019s Judiciary Police joined forces with mainland Chinese security units to dismantle a ring specialising in the use of bank-teller training notes to cheat gamblers in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- A total of 103 people have been arrested in Macau<\/strong> after a joint operation between the city’s Judiciary Police and mainland Chinese security units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police said that those arrested are suspected of taking part in a scam that used bank-teller training notes to cheat gamblers <\/strong>who sought to exchange Chinese yuan into Hong Kong dollars<\/strong> in or around Macau casinos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

73 cases of the scam were detected in Macau<\/strong>, with MOP10m (US$1.25m) reported to have been lost to the ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sou Sio Keong,<\/strong> director of the gaming-related and economic crimes investigation department at Judiciary Police, said: “Bank-teller training notes are commonly used by mainland China banks<\/strong> in training their tellers.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added: “Judiciary Police had seen a sharp rise in the number of such cases in Macau <\/strong>between October and March”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sou Sio Keong was appointed as the new director of the Gaming-related and Economic Crimes Investigation Department in March<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He previously worked as a criminal investigator<\/strong>, sub-inspector and inspector. Between 2009 and January 2021, he headed the Judiciary Police Online Crimes Investigation Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau recognised for its anti-money laundering controls<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US Department of State\u2019s\u00a02021 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR)<\/strong>\u00a0has recently noted that the Macau government has made great strides in its\u00a0anti-money laundering controls<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report indicates that \u201cin 2019, Macau prosecuted over 20 per cent of filed anti-money laundering cases<\/strong> (10 out of 48), a significant improvement from its historical prosecutorial rate <\/strong>of one to five per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Macau\u2019s Judiciary Police joined forces with mainland Chinese security units to dismantle a ring specialising in the use of bank-teller training notes to cheat gamblers in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's Judiciary Police, in collaboration with mainland Chinese security units, dismantled a criminal ring that defrauded gamblers using bank-teller training notes during currency exchange near casinos. The operation led to 103 arrests and uncovered 73 cases with MOP10m (US$1.25m) in reported losses. This news follows the US Department of State's recognition of Macau's significant improvements in anti-money laundering (AML) controls.","focusai_entities":"Judiciary Police, Sou Sio Keong, US Department of State","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), gambler_consumer (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau AML Impact?","query":"What are the broader implications of Macau's enhanced AML controls and this specific enforcement action on its international regulatory standing and potential for future gaming vertical expansion?"},{"label":"Operator Risk Mitigation?","query":"What specific preventative measures and enhanced due diligence protocols should licensed casino operators in Macau implement to mitigate risks associated with illicit currency exchange and protect patron integrity?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-16706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16727,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16706\/revisions\/16727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}