{"id":777033517,"date":"2025-10-23T08:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777033517"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:55:06","slug":"macau-sees-increase-in-gambling-related-crimes-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-sees-increase-in-gambling-related-crimes-data-shows","title":{"rendered":"Macau sees increase in gambling-related crimes, data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gambling-related cases rose nearly 134 per cent due to new measures against currency exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- During the Public Prosecutions Office<\/strong>\u2019s annual report presentation, prosecutor general Tong Hio Fong<\/strong> highlighted a rise in crime linked to gambling in the 2024\u201325 judicial year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Macao Daily, he said there were over 15,000 criminal cases in Macau overall, a 2 per cent decrease compared to the previous year. Despite this overall decline, gambling-related crimes increased by nearly 134 per cent to 760<\/strong>, mainly due to the new ban on unlicensed money exchange for gambling under the Law to Combat Crimes of Illegal Gambling enacted in late October 2024<\/a>. This accounted for 410 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Public Prosecutions Office closed 15,204 cases during the year, an increase of 10.7 per cent. Of that total, 3,766 led to prosecutions, while 11,113 were archived. Prosecutors also intervened in over 1,000 family and juvenile protection cases, a 13 per cent rise year-on-year.
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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Close to 600 arrested in first nine months of new Macau foreign exchange law<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gambling-related cases rose nearly 134 per cent due to new measures against currency exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777033520,"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's Public Prosecutions Office reported a 134% increase in gambling-related criminal cases, totaling 760, during the 2024\u201325 judicial year. This surge is primarily attributed to the new Law to Combat Crimes of Illegal Gambling, enacted in October 2024, which specifically targets unlicensed money exchange and accounted for 410 cases. The data underscores the immediate impact of enhanced regulatory enforcement on illicit financial activities within the jurisdiction's gaming vertical.","focusai_entities":"Public Prosecutions Office, Tong Hio Fong, Macao Daily","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.95), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"VIP GGR Impact?","query":"What is the projected impact of intensified enforcement against unlicensed money exchange on Macau's VIP GGR and the operational strategies of concessionaires?"},{"label":"Regulatory Efficacy?","query":"How does the 134% increase in gambling-related cases validate or challenge the efficacy of Macau's new Law to Combat Crimes of Illegal Gambling and its governance frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,439],"tags":[229,20326,257],"class_list":["post-777033517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legal-news","tag-gambling","tag-illegal-gambling","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033517","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777033517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777033523,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033517\/revisions\/777033523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777033520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777033517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777033517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777033517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}