{"id":777017029,"date":"2024-07-08T09:47:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T12:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777017029"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:23:40","slug":"927-barred-from-entering-macau-casinos-in-first-5-months-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/927-barred-from-entering-macau-casinos-in-first-5-months-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"927 barred from entering Macau casinos in first 5 months of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The bans were made for alleged involvement in money-changing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- Sit Chong Meng, director of the Judicial Police, has reported that during the first five months of the year, authorities barred 927 people from entering casinos due to alleged involvement in money-changing. During a speech on Friday, Chong Meng said the decisions were made with the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that in the same period, 1,942 unauthorised currency changers were banned from entering the city and 30 Macao ID holders caught had been referred to the Macao Monetary Authority, the city’s financial regulator. Meanwhile, the Judiciary Police investigated 579 gaming-related cases of antisocial activity, including a 66.7 per cent rise in gaming-related scam cases closely linked to currency exchange gangs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Judiciary Police probed 5,907 suspected crime cases in total, a 28.8 per cent year-on-year increase. Chong Meng said crimes related to gaming and tourism were on the rise but that money exchange scams had declined in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also:<\/strong> Macau gaming-related crime rises by 122% in Q1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau\u2019s new gambling law won\u2019t address illegal money exchange<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The proposed Law on Combating Illegal Gambling Crimes<\/a> will not include measures addressing illegal money exchange, though the Macau government has not dismissed the possibility of legislation on the matter in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawmaker Chan Chak Mo<\/strong>, the head of the AL\u2019s Second Standing Committee, told media that while the new bill does not target illegal money exchange, the government is aware of its impact on the gaming industry and local economy. He said the government is considering introducing penalties, such as entry bans for the activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The draft legislation, intended to replace the existing Illegal Gambling Law (Law 8\/96\/m), passed its initial reading at the Legislative Assembly of Macau<\/a> in February and is under review by the Legislative Assembly (AL). The proposal outlaws under-the-table betting<\/strong>, also known as side or multiplier betting and authorises undercover operations to tackle illicit gambling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bans were made for alleged involvement in money-changing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777007112,"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 authorities have barred 927 individuals from casinos for alleged money-changing activities in the first five months of the year, with overall gaming-related crime, particularly scams, showing a significant increase. While a new gambling law targets under-the-table betting, it currently omits specific provisions for illegal money exchange, though future legislation is under consideration.","focusai_entities":"Sit Chong Meng, Judicial Police, Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, DICJ, Macao Monetary Authority, Chan Chak Mo, AL\u2019s Second Standing Committee, Legislative Assembly of Macau, Legislative Assembly","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.95), payments_fraud_aml (0.98), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AML Impact of Legislative Gap?","query":"What are the projected implications for Macau's anti-money laundering (AML) efficacy given the current legislative gap regarding illegal money exchange in the new gambling law?"},{"label":"Operator Operational Adjustments?","query":"How are Macau's licensed casino operators expected to adjust their internal controls and surveillance protocols in response to the increased enforcement against money-changing and rising gaming-related crime?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[23911,23906],"class_list":["post-777017029","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\/777017029","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=777017029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777017058,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017029\/revisions\/777017058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777007112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777017029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777017029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777017029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}