{"id":32894,"date":"2022-08-23T18:08:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T21:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=32894"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:36:28","slug":"macau-gaming-related-crime-cases-down-45-2-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gaming-related-crime-cases-down-45-2-in-h1","title":{"rendered":"Macau: Gaming-related crime cases down 45.2% in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Office of the Secretary for Security in Macau reported 198 gaming-related crimes in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- Authorities in Macau have shared\u00a0crime statistics for the first half of the year<\/strong>. Gaming-related crime cases were down 45.2 per cent year-on-year from 361 to 198.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government said the year-on-year drop was due to\u00a0lower tourist arrivals<\/a>\u00a0to Macau due to Covid-19 restrictions. Cases in the first half of the year were down just 7 per cent from the 213 cases recorded in the first half of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among other factors contributing to the first-half decline was local police action against “criminal groups”, the report stated. About 27 per cent of cases (54 cases) detected in the first half of 2022 were classified as\u00a0scams associated with casino environments<\/strong>, with 23 of those cases involving currency exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first half, police conducted checks on 2,725 people who were related to illicit currency exchange activities, down 39.1 per cent from a year earlier. The report added that the majority of those suspected of illegally exchanging currency were from mainland China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other types of gambling-related crime – namely loan sharking, theft and forced incarceration of individuals – all fell when compared to last year. In 2021,\u00a0the city recorded 1,372 gaming-related crimes<\/strong>.\u00a0The figure was up 23.2 per cent<\/a>\u00a0from the 1,114 cases identified in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Office of the Secretary for Security in Macau reported 198 gaming-related crimes in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26856,"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 a 45.2% year-on-year decrease in gaming-related crimes for H1 2022, totaling 198 cases. This decline is primarily attributed to reduced tourist arrivals due to COVID-19 restrictions and targeted police actions against criminal groups, particularly impacting scams and illicit currency exchange activities. While H1 2022 figures are down from the previous year, they represent only a 7% decrease from H1 2020, indicating a stabilization at a lower baseline post-pandemic onset.","focusai_entities":"Office of the Secretary for Security","focusai_location":"Macau, mainland China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.95), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Impact Assessment","query":"What specific regulatory or enforcement policy adjustments are anticipated from the Macau government in response to the observed shifts in gaming-related crime typologies, particularly concerning illicit currency exchange and casino-associated scams?"},{"label":"Operator Risk Mitigation","query":"How are Macau-based integrated resort operators recalibrating their internal security protocols, AML frameworks, and patron surveillance strategies to address the persistent threat of financial crimes, despite the overall reduction in reported incidents?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[23911,23906],"class_list":["post-32894","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\/32894","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=32894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32932,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32894\/revisions\/32932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}