{"id":777000527,"date":"2022-11-29T12:53:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777000527"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:32:59","slug":"macau-gaming-related-crime-down-48-8-in-year-to-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gaming-related-crime-down-48-8-in-year-to-september","title":{"rendered":"Macau: gaming-related crime down 48.8% in year to September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Macau has reported 257 gaming-related crimes from January to September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- Macau’s Judiciary Police have shared crime statistics for the first nine months of the year<\/strong>, showing that cases of gaming-related crime were down 48.8 per cent year-on-year from 502 to 257. However, the drop was mainly due to lower tourist arrivals<\/a> to Macau due to Covid-19 outbreaks and associated travel restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, authorities said the decrease in gaming-related crimes was also the results of a stronger police presence in the city’s casinos and nearby areas, which led to more inspections. There were 25 cases of gambling-related usury<\/strong> compared to 55 last year. Meanwhile, police dealt with one case of unlawful detention compared with 26 in the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also:<\/strong> Macau police to set up anti-fraud communication channel with casinos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data also showed that in the first nine months of 2022, there were 65 fraud cases, a year-on-year decrease of 60.4 per cent. As for illegal money-changing activities, cases dropped by 55.4 per cent to 2,899. In 2021 as a whole, Macau’s judicial police filed 1,372 cases of gambling-related crimes, an increase of 23.2 per cent over the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also:<\/strong> Macau aims to leave behind its reputation as a city for gambling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Macau has reported 257 gaming-related crimes from January to September 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26706,"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 reported a 48.8% year-on-year decrease in gaming-related crimes, totaling 257 cases from January to September 2022. This reduction is primarily attributed to significantly lower tourist arrivals due to COVID-19 restrictions, augmented by an increased police presence and enhanced inspections within casino areas. Specific crime categories like usury, unlawful detention, fraud, and illegal money-changing also saw substantial declines.","focusai_entities":"Judiciary Police","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact of Tourism Recovery","query":"How might the anticipated recovery of tourist arrivals in Macau influence gaming-related crime rates and the efficacy of current policing strategies in subsequent reporting periods?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Efficacy","query":"What specific enhancements to Macau's regulatory compliance and governance frameworks are being considered to sustain the reduction in gaming-related usury and illegal money-changing activities independent of tourist volume?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[23911,23906],"class_list":["post-777000527","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\/777000527","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=777000527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777000527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777000550,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777000527\/revisions\/777000550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777000527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777000527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777000527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}