{"id":777012782,"date":"2024-01-31T08:41:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777012782"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:29:04","slug":"macau-reports-2717-gaming-related-crimes-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-reports-2717-gaming-related-crimes-in-2023","title":{"rendered":"Macau reports 2,717 gaming-related crimes in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The figure was half of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Authorities in Macau have reported that\u00a0<strong>gaming-related crimes rose 181 per cent\u00a0<\/strong>year-on-year  to\u00a0<strong>2,717<\/strong> in 2023. However, the figure was 50 per cent lower than in 2019. <strong>Sit Chong Meng<\/strong>, director of the Judiciary Police, said loansharking and related detention cases were down by 80.2 per cent and 90.4 per cent respectively, compared to 2019 while illicit gambling and money laundering had all but disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were <strong>119 cases of loan sharking related to gambling activities<\/strong>, up 261 per cent from 33 in 2022. There were 257 fraud cases, up 199 per cent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An increase from 2022 was expected since Macau remained closed to tourism in that year due to Covid-19 countermeasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-suspicious-gaming-transactions-reach-a-new-record-high-in-2023\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau: suspicious gaming transactions reach a new record high in 2023<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The figure was half of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16477,"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 181% year-on-year increase in gaming-related crimes in 2023, reaching 2,717 cases, though this figure remains 50% below 2019 levels. While illicit gambling and money laundering cases significantly decreased compared to 2019, specific categories like loansharking and fraud saw substantial increases from 2022, a year heavily impacted by COVID-19 closures.","focusai_entities":"Sit Chong Meng, Judiciary Police","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.95), investor_analyst (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Response to Crime?","query":"What specific regulatory or enforcement measures are being considered by Macau authorities to address the significant year-on-year increase in loansharking and fraud within the gaming sector?"},{"label":"Operator Compliance Impact?","query":"How do the 2023 crime statistics, particularly the rise in specific categories, impact the risk assessment and compliance obligations for licensed gaming operators in Macau, especially concerning AML and responsible gaming frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777012782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012782","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=777012782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012795,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012782\/revisions\/777012795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777012782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}