{"id":33667,"date":"2022-09-21T06:43:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T09:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=33667"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:43:13","slug":"alvin-chau-denies-involvement-in-online-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/alvin-chau-denies-involvement-in-online-betting","title":{"rendered":"Alvin Chau denies involvement in online betting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chau Cheok Wa has denied involvement in online betting but admitted that Suncity ran proxy betting services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- In a new court session in his trial,\u00a0Alvin Chau Cheok Wa<\/a>\u00a0has denied involvement in the online gaming business. He confirmed that Suncity operated proxy betting services<\/strong>, placing casino bets on behalf of customers who were not at the casino, but said Suncity stopped the service after authorities ordered a ban in 2016. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told the court on Tuesday that after that Suncity only offered such services in overseas markets, such as the Philippines. The former CEO of Suncity Group added that the company stopped operating proxy betting services through the Philippines in 2019<\/strong>, transferring the operations to a man named Richard Ieong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Chau, after the aforementioned transfer, the proxy betting business was named UE. However, two other defendants that were senior Suncity Group managers said the proxy business had still been receiving operational support from the Suncity Group junket business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the first day of his trial<\/a>, Alvin Chau Cheok Wa had denied accusations that he ran under-the-table betting for high rollers for years. Prosecutor Lai U Hou\u00a0<\/strong>had referred to conversations and text messages obtained by the police that allegedly showed Chau\u2019s role in multiplier betting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under this practice, bets denominated at the casino gaming table would represent a private wager that would be a multiple of the \u201cofficial\u201d wager, thereby avoiding the 39 per cent tax rate on gross gaming revenue. Macau prosecutors alleged that\u00a0Chau invited several people to set up an entity<\/strong>\u00a0responsible for processing multiplier bets to increase working capital and spread risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chau said: \u201cWhat I was handling was regulating the grant of credit to players, and monitoring the risks. I took no part in the interests related to multiplier activities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trial will continue on Wednesday (September 21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chau Cheok Wa has denied involvement in online betting but admitted that Suncity ran proxy betting services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Alvin Chau Cheok Wa, former CEO of Suncity Group, denied involvement in online gaming and multiplier betting schemes aimed at tax evasion, but admitted Suncity operated proxy betting services, which ceased in Macau in 2016 and globally in 2019, transferring operations to a third party. Prosecutors allege Chau's role in facilitating multiplier bets to circumvent Macau's 39% GGR tax, raising significant regulatory and compliance concerns.","focusai_entities":"Chau Cheok Wa, Alvin Chau, Suncity, Suncity Group, Richard Ieong, UE, Lai U Hou","focusai_location":"Macau, Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Junket Model","query":"How will the legal precedent set by the Chau Cheok Wa trial influence the future operational viability and regulatory oversight of the junket model in Macau and other Asian gaming jurisdictions, particularly concerning credit provision and high-roller services?"},{"label":"Tax Evasion Implications","query":"What are the broader implications for Macau's GGR tax collection and regulatory enforcement mechanisms given the alleged scale of multiplier betting and its potential to circumvent official revenue reporting?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[23911,23702],"class_list":["post-33667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-suncity-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33667","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=33667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33693,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33667\/revisions\/33693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}