{"id":26223,"date":"2022-01-13T08:12:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T11:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=26223"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:17:53","slug":"macau-authorities-detected-1330-suspicious-transactions-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-authorities-detected-1330-suspicious-transactions-in-2021","title":{"rendered":"Macau authorities detected 1,330 suspicious transactions in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>54.6 per cent of the total suspicious transactions registered in 2021 were related to the gaming industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The<strong>&nbsp;Macau Financial Intelligence Office<\/strong>&nbsp;has reported the total number of&nbsp;<strong>suspicious transactions<\/strong>&nbsp;related to the gaming industry&nbsp;<strong>rose to 1,330 in 2021<\/strong>, up 9.5 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of\u00a0<strong>suspicious transactions rose to\u00a0<\/strong>2,435 with 54.6 per cent of reports coming from gaming operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Financial and insurance institutions<\/strong>&nbsp;accounted for<strong>&nbsp;32.6 per cent<\/strong>. Reports about&nbsp;<strong>other institutions&nbsp;<\/strong>accounted for 12.8 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-suspicious-transactions-reports-fall-24-in-2020\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gaming industry filed 1,215 STRs in Macau, accounting for 54.6 per cent of reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last November,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-detects-164-cases-of-casino-related-fraud\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Office of the Secretary for Security in Macau<\/a>&nbsp;also reported that the number of casino-related fraud cases between January and September was 164, the same number recorded in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first nine months of 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic halted the city\u2019s tourism industry and casino trade,\u00a0<strong>Macau had recorded just 60 casino-related frauds<\/strong>. There were 291 such crimes in the first nine months of 2019 and 175 in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>54.6 per cent of the total suspicious transactions registered in 2021 were related to the gaming industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25351,"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 Macau Financial Intelligence Office reported a 9.5% year-on-year increase in suspicious transactions related to the gaming industry in 2021, reaching 1,330, which constituted 54.6% of all STRs. This sustained rise in financial crime indicators, coupled with an increase in casino-related fraud cases, underscores heightened regulatory scrutiny and operational risks within the Macau gaming vertical, impacting governance frameworks and compliance obligations for B2C operators.","focusai_entities":"Macau Financial Intelligence Office, The Office of the Secretary for Security in Macau","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AML Framework Efficacy?","query":"What specific enhancements or revisions to Macau's gaming AML\/CFT governance frameworks are anticipated in response to the sustained increase in suspicious transaction reports and casino-related fraud?"},{"label":"Operator Compliance Impact?","query":"How will the Macau Financial Intelligence Office's findings impact the operational compliance burden, resource allocation, and B2C licensing requirements for gaming operators within the jurisdiction?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[23911,23906],"class_list":["post-26223","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\/26223","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=26223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26236,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26223\/revisions\/26236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}