Ambrose So
Ambrose So announced yesterday that the Casino Greek Mythology has closed for ‘renovation works’ and is expected to reopen, although he did not provide
a date. The executive director and CEO of SJM Holdings confirmed the contents of yesterday’s Times report, which revealed that the casino located in Taipa closed on December 30 without any prior notice.
“The hotel and the casino premises are a little bit worn out, so they would like to do a renovation before they resume operations. The shareholders are settling the ownership among themselves… I think they would like to open as soon as possible, because they would like, of course, to try to proceed and make some money,” the executive director and CEO of SJM Holdings told TDM.
The Casino Greek Mythology operates under an SJM license on the premises of the Beijing Imperial Palace Hotel (formerly the New Century Hotel) that remains open.
According to TDM, 100 of the casino’s staff members have been transferred to other SJM properties. The ownership dispute mentioned by Ambrose So became public in 2012, when a hotel shareholder named Ng Man-Sun (also known as Ng Wai and Kai See Wai) was attacked by a gang of six men inside the property. Ng was involved in a dispute with his former girlfriend and business partner, Chen Meihuan, who claimed that she owned 80 percent of the shares in the debt-ridden hotel.
In 2013, a ruling of the Macau Court of First Instance (TJB) resulted in the hotel being seized in order to pay unpaid debts owed to the owner of a Macau-based travel agency, Energy Travel Agency Ltd.
More recently, some of the hotel’s former employees have protested near the hotel’s entrance on different occasions, demanding the payment of several months’ worth of unpaid salaries.
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