{"id":25948,"date":"2022-01-03T09:29:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T12:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=25948"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:36:57","slug":"macau-two-arrested-after-stealing-casino-chips-worth-44369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-two-arrested-after-stealing-casino-chips-worth-44369","title":{"rendered":"Macau: two arrested after stealing casino chips worth $44,369"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities in Macau have recently arrested a man and a woman who stole casino chips worth MOP355,000 (US$44,369) from a casino on Cotai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Police in Macau have arrested a man and a woman on charges of<strong>\u00a0stealing casino chips worth MOP355,000 (US$44,369)<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local media reports, the case involves at least six victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police said that last September, they received a report from the monitoring staff of the Cotai Casino that multiple thefts had occurred in the VIP lounge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities checked surveillance video and found that a man and a woman were stealing chips in the casino, targeting gamblers with large amounts of chips.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Macau Business,&nbsp;<strong>those arrested persuaded the victims to hand them the chips&nbsp;<\/strong>to help the victim gamble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They then used to distract the gamblers&#8217; attention to steal the chips. However, police intercepted two criminal suspects a few days ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They confessed to the facts of the crime and claimed that all the illegal gains had been lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last September,&nbsp;<strong>police in Macau also arrested an employee of a VIP casino venue&nbsp;<\/strong>on suspicion of stealing nearly MOP95.5m (US$11.9m) from&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-woman-arrested-for-us12m-junket-theft\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 70 customers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to officers, the woman promised to give customers a 1.1 per cent daily interest rate on the funds. However, two of her victims complained that they&nbsp;<strong>were unable to withdraw their deposits<\/strong>&nbsp;worth MOP9m.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman claims that a managing partner in the VIP room instructed her to transfer the deposits to another account.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Macau have recently arrested a man and a woman who stole casino chips worth MOP355,000 (US$44,369) from a casino on Cotai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22681,"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 authorities have apprehended two individuals for the theft of MOP355,000 in casino chips from a Cotai VIP lounge, employing distraction tactics against high-value gamblers. This incident follows a separate, larger-scale case where a VIP casino employee was arrested for allegedly embezzling MOP95.5m from customers through a fraudulent deposit scheme.","focusai_entities":"Macau Business","focusai_location":"Macau, Cotai","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), payments_fraud_aml (0.85), investor_analyst (0.85), tech_data (0.75), marketing_crm (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.95), gambler_consumer (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Security Protocol Enhancements?","query":"What specific enhancements to surveillance technology, staff training, and internal control frameworks are Macau's integrated resorts implementing to counter sophisticated chip theft and internal embezzlement within VIP gaming verticals?"},{"label":"Regulatory Response Impact?","query":"How will the Macau Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) respond to these incidents, potentially revising regulatory compliance mandates for operator accountability in preventing financial crime and safeguarding patron assets?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[229,23906],"class_list":["post-25948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-gambling","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25948","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=25948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25962,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25948\/revisions\/25962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}