{"id":24718,"date":"2021-11-22T07:55:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T10:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=24718"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:38:57","slug":"macau-detects-164-cases-of-casino-related-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-detects-164-cases-of-casino-related-fraud","title":{"rendered":"Macau detects 164 cases of casino-related fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Office of the Secretary for Security in Macau reported 164 casino-related fraud cases in the first nine months of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The Office of the Secretary for Security in Macau has shared crime statistics from the first nine months of the year, revealing that the number of casino-related fraud cases between January and September was 164, the same number recorded in 2018. Some\u00a092 cases were related to the exchange of currencies<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first nine months of 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic haltered the city\u2019s tourism industry and casino trade,\u00a0Macau recorded just 60 casino-related frauds<\/strong>.\u00a0There were 291 such crimes in the first nine months of 2019 and 175 in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, Macau\u2019s security agencies have identified illegal currency exchange activities as a major threat. From January to September this year, police identified 1,255 people from mainland China who were suspected of engaging in illegal currency exchange businesses. Compared with the same period in 2020, there is an increase of 696.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Office of the Secretary for Security noted that no counterfeit gaming chips have been found since the first quarter when the face value of counterfeit coins detected was HK$2m (US$257,582).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April,\u00a0103 people were arrested in Macau<\/strong>\u00a0after\u00a0a joint operation<\/a>\u00a0between the city\u2019s Judiciary Police and mainland Chinese security units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police said that those arrested were suspected of\u00a0cheating 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 73 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) recently praised Macau\u2019s casino operators\u2019 efforts<\/a>\u00a0to comply with Covid-19 countermeasures and cooperation to fight against gaming-related crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Office of the Secretary for Security in Macau reported 164 casino-related fraud cases in the first nine months of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":24748,"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 Office of the Secretary for Security reported 164 casino-related fraud cases in the first nine months of the year, matching 2018 levels, with illegal currency exchange identified as a major threat. This figure represents a significant increase from 2020 but a decrease from 2019. Law enforcement efforts, including a joint operation with mainland Chinese security units, led to 103 arrests and the recovery of MOP10m, while the DICJ commended operators' compliance efforts.","focusai_entities":"Office of the Secretary for Security in Macau, Judiciary Police, Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ)","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.95), investor_analyst (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR?","query":"How do these reported fraud statistics, particularly concerning illegal currency exchange, correlate with Macau's overall GGR and NGR performance, and what is the projected financial impact on licensed operators?"},{"label":"Regulatory Response?","query":"What enhanced regulatory compliance measures or governance frameworks are the DICJ and Macau security agencies implementing to mitigate the persistent threat of illegal currency exchange and casino-related fraud?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[23911,23906],"class_list":["post-24718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/24718","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=24718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24725,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718\/revisions\/24725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}