The police have arrested eight mainland men for their alleged involvement in a 60-member casino loan-sharking gang, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said at a special press conference on Thursday. The spokesperson said that based on a tip-off in April, the police began investigating the gang. According to the spokesperson, the suspects mainly operated near […]
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Macau’s former chief prosecutor was back in prison on Tuesday night after the city’s top court rejected his bid for release on the grounds that he was wrongly detained following his arrest in connection with an alleged multimillion-dollar corruption racket. The city’s Court of Final Appeal threw out a habeas corpus application from Ho Chio-meng […]
Macau’s former chief public prosecutor Ho Chio Meng was remanded in custody on Saturday on allegations of graft, according to a special press conference held by Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) chief André Cheong Weng Chon at his office. Cheong said the Public Prosecution Office (MP) passed the case to the CCAC in the first half […]
Ho Chio Meng, former Macau Prosecutor General, has been arrested and charged with fraud, abuse of power and document forgery , according to the English TV news of Macau television (TDM). The city’s graft watchdog says a former head of the Public Prosecutions Office and main officers are suspected of colluding with a private company […]
The police arrested a Filipina domestic helper on Thursday for dumping her newborn in a waste bin in a residential building in Taipa on Tuesday, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said. The spokesperson made the announcement during a special press briefing last night. A baby girl was left inside a bin in a communal utility […]
The Public Security Police (PSP) arrested 15 people, aged between 22 and 35, in a Tuesday night raid on an underground casino in a residential flat in Areia Preta, PSP spokesperson Lei Tak Fai said yesterday, adding that the police seized over three million patacas worth of gaming chips and 16 computers. Acting on a […]
The police seized 9.3 kilogrammes of cocaine worth about 25 million patacas and arrested three suspects Sunday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Vong Chi Hong said. Speaking to reporters after the arrests outside a guesthouse in Praça de Ponte e Horta, Vong, who heads the PJ’s criminal investigation division, said the police recently received a tip-off […]
Authorities in the U.S. arrested Macau real estate developer Ng Lap Seng on Saturday. Alongside his assistant, Jeff Yin, Mr Ng was charged with engaging in a two-year scheme to import over USD4.5 million into the United States under false pretenses. Reuters has reported that both man were informed of the accusations through a criminal […]