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Casino-linked crime up 19 pct in 2016: Macau police

Jan 17, 2017 Newsdesk Latest News, Macau, Top of the deck  


Casino-linked crime up 19 pct in 2016: Macau police

Macau recorded a total of 1,851 casino-related crimes in full-year 2016, up by 19.2 percent from the previous year, the director of the Judiciary Police Chau Wai Kuong (pictured) said on Monday.

The list includes cases of abduction and crimes such as extortion and usury. In Macau such offences are typically connected to gambling-related loan sharking; i.e., the unlawful lending of money for gambling, often at very high rates of interest.

The Judiciary Police label cases as gaming-related when they take place inside a casino.

Gaming-related cases of suspected usury increased by 38.7 percent year-on-year in 2016 to 411, the police data showed. A total of 503 cases of gaming-related suspected unlawful detention were recorded in 2016, a jump of 37.4 percent year-on-year.

The head of the Judiciary Police said at Monday’s press conference that the majority of the victims and the majority of the suspected perpetrators in the cases of usury and or unlawful detention recorded in the city were not Macau residents. Mr Chau added that the rise in cases of suspected gaming-related crime had “not [negatively] impacted the local community”.

Mr Chau additionally said that the higher number of reported cases was due to enhanced police investigation efforts.

“The reason why you see a higher number of gaming-related crimes, is because we have successfully closed more cases,” the director of the Judiciary Police was quoted as saying.


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