The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has praised Macau’s casino operators’ efforts to comply with Covid-19 countermeasures and cooperation to fight against gaming-related crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has praised Macau’s casino operators’ assistance in the fight against gaming-related crime, particularly the use of fake banknotes. The regulator also praised operators’ cooperation with the Covid-19 prevention measures by hosting 10 testing sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Organised groups have been using bank-teller training notes to try to cheat gamblers. The DICJ said the Judiciary Police had increased efforts to tackle such scams and had been able to identify the alleged fraudsters \u201cmore quickly\u201d thanks to a communication mechanism with the security departments of the casino operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In April, 103 people were arrested in Macau<\/strong>\u00a0after\u00a0a joint operation<\/a>\u00a0between the city\u2019s Judiciary Police and mainland Chinese security units. Police said that those arrested were suspected of cheating gamblers\u00a0<\/strong>who\u00a0sought to exchange Chinese yuan into Hong Kong dollars<\/strong>\u00a0in or around Macau casinos. Some MOP10m (US$1.25m) was reported to have been lost to the ring in 73cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In October,\u00a0a new outbreak of Covid-19 cases<\/a>\u00a0led authorities to carry out new\u00a0mass testing<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the third in recent months. A previous mass testing was launched\u00a0in August<\/a>, when\u00a0716,251 people were tested<\/strong>, all of them returning negative results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has praised Macau’s casino operators’ efforts to comply with Covid-19 countermeasures and cooperation to fight against gaming-related crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":23015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has commended Macau's casino operators for their robust compliance with Covid-19 countermeasures, including hosting testing sites, and their proactive cooperation in combating gaming-related crimes, specifically fake banknote and illicit currency exchange scams. This collaboration has led to more rapid identification of fraudsters and significant arrests, underscoring enhanced market integrity and operational resilience.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), Judiciary Police","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), payments_fraud_aml (0.95), investor_analyst (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Future Anti-Fraud Frameworks?","query":"How will the DICJ's commendation of operator cooperation influence the development of future regulatory frameworks for anti-fraud and AML measures within Macau's gaming verticals?"},{"label":"Impact on Market Integrity?","query":"What are the long-term implications of enhanced operator-regulator collaboration on Macau's gaming market integrity, investor confidence, and the jurisdiction's global standing?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23911,23906],"class_list":["post-24514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514","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=24514"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24548,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514\/revisions\/24548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}