CRIME | Employee defrauds casino out of hundreds of thousands

The Judiciary Police (PJ) has detained a woman alleged to have defrauded the casino she worked for out of HKD270,000.
The authorities received a report on Sunday from a casino in Taipa, alleging that one of its employees had been involved in fraudulent activity with an associate.
The accused is a 25-year-
old local female who worked in the casino cage. It is alleged that while working there a gambler, believed to be her associate, had given her HKD30,000 in exchange for a slot machine voucher of the same amount; and that the female suspect had deliberately keyed in HKD300,000 – ten times the correct amount – and given a voucher with the excess sum to her associate.
Her associate then immediately took the voucher to another cage in the casino and successfully exchanged it for cash. PJ is still trying to locate the suspect’s associate and the defrauded money.
In a separate case, the Public Security Police (PSP) has detained an 18-year-old mainland woman for using a forged Chinese passport to register for a hotel room in the Central district.
PSP information suggested that they received an anonymous tip-off several days ago. On October 15, PSP officers arrived at the hotel in question to investigate. They found the suspect in a hotel room, and entered to investigate with her permission.
The woman showed the officers a Chinese passport and an arrival declaration issued by the PSP immigration department. Since the photo quality of the passport was poor, the officers then interrogated her. The woman eventually admitted that it was a forged document.
The suspect claimed that she had come to Macau intending to prostitute herself, but did not want to use her real identity to register for a hotel room. Therefore, she asked a man to forge the fake document for her, as well as the arrival declaration. She also claimed that the man did not receive any money from her.
After receiving the forged documents, she entered Macau with her real travel permit on September 13 and registered for two rooms in the same hotel with the fake passport.

PSP finds MOP600k of drugs in illegal inn

The Public Security Police (PSP) has detained a 25-year-old mainland resident from Liaoning, after finding illicit substances worth MOP600,000 in an illegal inn where he lived. The operation was triggered by an anonymous tip-off, which claimed that there were illegal drugs in a residential apartment near Hotel Lisboa. The authorities located the detained man and intercepted him at Praça Ferreira do Amaral. PSP officers found a small amount of ketamine on him. They then entered the illegal inn and found six different types of drugs in the man’s room. PSP also found four other men at the illegal inn, but believed that they were not connected to the case. The man will be charged with drug dealing and will be handed to the Public Prosecution Office.