CRIME | Croupier arrested for embezzlement

The Judiciary Police (PJ) informed at a press conference yesterday, that a croupier and his crime partner from Hong Kong were arrested on Sunday on the charges of embezzlement and collusion to commit fraud respectively.
The PJ informed that in the early hours of Sunday (July 24) they received a call from the security team of a casino located in the Macau peninsula, reporting that a croupier on duty took the opportunity of an exchange of cash for gaming chips to perform fraud, exchanging HKD1,000 in cash for HKD50,000 in chips.
Officers from PJ intercepted both suspects on site, who subsequently confessed to the crime, allegedly to recover money lost on gaming.
According to the police force, the two suspects also confessed that this was not the first time that they have committed such a crime, having performed similar actions in March and June of this year.
The PJ also found out that the scheme involving the suspects had established rules on profit sharing (two-thirds for the croupier and one-third for the partner).
The action of the PJ also ensured the recovery of HKD50,000 in chips. The total loss for the casino is not yet known.
A separate case reported on by both the PJ and the Public Security Police Force (PSP) occurred July 22 around 11.45 p.m., when a local resident was arrested for drug trafficking at the Border Gate cross point when trying to reenter the territory from Zhuhai.
The man was spotted due to his suspicious behavior. After undergoing a search, it was discovered that the man had concealed inside his underwear four bags containing a total of 11 grams of Ketamine, wrapped in paper tissue.
Taken to PJ, the man confessed to have bought the drugs in Zhuhai for RMB1,500, and was supposed to deliver them to a woman in Macau that would pay him a sum of MOP1,000.
He said he had communicated with the woman via a mobile communication app. When questioned by the police, he admitted that he had been doing this kind of transportation at least five times in a period of a week.
For the time being the PJ said that they have not located the woman handling the drugs in the territory.