Alvin Chau Cheok Wa has appointed Leong Hon Man as his new lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- The former CEO of Suncity Group (now LET Group Holdings Ltd<\/a>) has changed his lawyer as his trial resumes. Alvin Chau Cheok Wa\u2019s <\/strong>has appointed Leong Hon Man<\/strong> to represent him in place of Leong Weng Pun. The trial resumed today (October 25) after a fortnight’s break but with a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to GGRASia, Hon Man is from a different legal practice and is a colleague of Maria In\u00eas Gomes, who represents Philip Wong Pak Ling, another defendant and the former chief financial officer of Suncity Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chau Cheok Wa has been indicted for operating illegal gambling, founding and leading a criminal group and for money laundering. He was arrested in November 2021<\/a> together with 11 others. It’s alleged that he provided illicit gaming in approved casinos and ran illicit online betting and proxy betting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the first day of the trial, Chau denied accusations<\/a> that he ran under-the-table betting for high rollers for years. However, Ali Celestino<\/strong>, a former executive at Suncity Group<\/strong>, has told the court that the company had an IT system<\/a> for keeping track of illegal multiplier bets. The case is due to continue into November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alvin Chau Cheok Wa has appointed Leong Hon Man as his new lawyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21187,"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, has appointed Leong Hon Man as his new legal counsel as his high-profile trial in Macau resumes. Chau faces charges including operating illegal gambling, leading a criminal group, and money laundering, with allegations of illicit online and proxy betting operations. The trial continues into November, with a former Suncity executive testifying about an IT system for illegal multiplier bets.","focusai_entities":"Alvin Chau Cheok Wa, Leong Hon Man, Suncity Group, LET Group Holdings Ltd, Leong Weng Pun, Maria In\u00eas Gomes, Philip Wong Pak Ling, Ali Celestino","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.85), tech_data (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Junket Model","query":"What are the potential long-term implications of Alvin Chau's trial and the allegations of illicit operations on the future viability and regulatory oversight of the Macau junket operator model?"},{"label":"Corporate Governance Lessons","query":"How might this case influence corporate governance frameworks and personal liability standards for senior executives within iGaming and integrated resort operators globally?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[23911,23702],"class_list":["post-34748","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\/34748","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=34748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34772,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34748\/revisions\/34772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}