Macau’s Judiciary Police have arrested a person from the playing regulator’s workplace beneath suspicion of working a prostitution web site. [Image: Shutterstock.com]
Civil servant arrested
An investigation by Macau’s Judiciary Police (PJ) following a MOP$12m ($1.4m) playing and prostitution ring bust in September has netted its largest fish but, a 58-year-old civil servant working inside playing regulation for the Chinese language Particular Administrative Area (SAR).
moderator for the prostitution ring’s web site
The PJ arrested the person, final identify Ng, in his condominium on Monday on suspicion of being a moderator for the prostitution ring’s web site.
In a Tuesday press convention, PJ spokesman Lou Chan Fai mentioned Ng was one of many suspects moderating the positioning that the ring ran to promote prostitution providers and entice intercourse purchasers. Together with Ng, police on Monday additionally arrested the opposite suspected web site moderator, a 38-year-old restaurant supervisor surnamed Ku.
In response to the Macau Submit Day by day, Ng admitted beneath police questioning to “moderating” the chat boards of the prostitution web site and that he’d been working for the crime syndicate for ten years.
Many years working for DICJ
What has raised the ire of the Macau public, nonetheless, is that Ng has been working with Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) for 30 years. The DICJ is each watchdog and regulator for the SAR’s gaming trade, so having considered one of its staff linked to a felony syndicate critically undermines the physique’s integrity.
The PJ’s probe resulting in Monday’s arrests started on September 27 after it arrested 19 people and 54 girls from mainland China concerned within the felony gang.
Over that decade, Ng instructed police he had “acquired ‘a number of’ remunerations of MOP$500-$800 ($62-$99) over the last decade.”
Ng added the crime ring’s kingpin, Ao leong, satisfied him to work for the gang. Ng refused to disclose how a lot Ao — who police arrested in 2022 — had paid him over the ten years.
The Submit cited a DICJ assertion Tuesday confirming Ng’s short-term suspension and that “disciplinary proceedings have been launched to comply with up on the case.”
Officers moved Ng to the Public Prosecutions Workplace on Monday the place he’ll now have time to ponder getting charged with organized crime and controlling prostitutes in an SAR the place, whereas prostitution is authorized, the pimping of prostitutes is just not.
Gangster’s paradise no extra
Playing criminals in Macau are working frightened of the PJ and the SAR’s courts, notably for the reason that arrest of billionaire playing kingpin Alvin Chau in 2021, and his 18-year jail sentence in January.
Simply final month, the PJ arrested 15 Macau residents and over a rating of mainland Chinese language believed to be a part of a felony syndicate that operated a web-based playing platform with offshore servers and allegedly made earnings of ¥25m ($3.7m) at a minimal.
