{"id":19111,"date":"2021-06-17T14:58:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=19111"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:28:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:28:50","slug":"macau-4-arrested-over-casino-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-4-arrested-over-casino-scam","title":{"rendered":"Macau: 4 arrested over casino scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four women scammed a casino in Cotai and took HK$2m (US$258,000) between May and June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- Four people have been arrested in connection with a scam through which a female dealer and three other women took&nbsp;<strong>HK$2m (US$258,000) from a casino in Cotai<\/strong> over two weeks between May and June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dealer started\u00a0games with no gamblers at her baccarat game table. Her accomplices appeared later and placed bets after learning the result of the game. The dealer paid them\u00a0<strong>winnings ranging from HK$60,000 to HK$150,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>casino&#8217;s supervisors\u00a0<\/strong>reported suspicions to police. Officers says the women will face charges of organised crime. The female dealer could face up to eight years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police also seized four smartphones, money and&nbsp;<strong>12 HK$10,000 gaming chips<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ho Chan Nam<\/strong>, Judiciary Police spokesman, believes there could have been<strong>&nbsp;a fourth person&nbsp;<\/strong>involved in the planning of the scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April, a total of<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/police-in-macau-and-mainland-china-bust-gambling-scam-ring\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">103 people were arrested in Macau<\/a>&nbsp;after a joint operation between the city\u2019s Judiciary Police and mainland Chinese security units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said that those arrested were suspected of taking part in a\u00a0<strong>scam that used bank-teller training notes to cheat gamblers\u00a0<\/strong>who\u00a0sought to exchange Chinese yuan for Hong Kong dollars\u00a0in or around Macau casinos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four women scammed a casino in Cotai and took HK$2m (US$258,000) between May and June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"A sophisticated internal fraud scheme in a Cotai, Macau casino resulted in HK$2m (US$258,000) being stolen by a dealer and three accomplices through manipulated baccarat games. Separately, Macau authorities arrested 103 individuals involved in a MOP10m (US$1.25m) scam using fake bank-teller notes to defraud gamblers exchanging currency near casinos. These incidents highlight persistent operational security and fraud challenges within the region's gaming sector.","focusai_entities":"Ho Chan Nam, Judiciary Police, mainland Chinese security units","focusai_location":"Macau, Cotai, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), tech_data (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Casino Internal Controls","query":"What specific deficiencies in the casino's surveillance, internal audit, or employee monitoring protocols allowed a dealer-led baccarat scam to persist for two weeks, and what corrective actions are being implemented?"},{"label":"Macau Regulatory Response","query":"How will Macau's gaming regulator respond to these high-profile fraud incidents to reinforce governance frameworks and ensure operators enhance their anti-fraud and AML compliance measures across all gaming verticals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[23911,23906],"class_list":["post-19111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111","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=19111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19153,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions\/19153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}