The Macau gaming sector filed an aggregate of 997 suspicious transaction reports (STRs) in the first three months of this year. The tally was up 11.9 percent from the 891 STRs the sector filed a year earlier.
That is according to the latest statistical update from Financial Intelligence Office, a unit of Macau’s Unitary Police Service.
In the first quarter this year, city-wide STRs totalled 1,356, i.e., 10.2-percent higher than in the prior-year period. Gaming sector ones accounted for 73.5 percent of the quarterly total.
“The [year-on-year] change was mainly due to the increase in the number of STRs reported by the gaming sector,” the office stated.
For full-year 2025, the Macau gaming sector had filed a total of 3,603 STRS, down 6.1 percent year-on-year. The sector was responsible for 73.1 percent of all STRs filed last year.
The year of 2024, with an aggregate of 3,837 STRs filed by the gaming sector, represented a record for a 12-month period since the Financial Intelligence Office began compiling data in 2006.
