Crime | Illegal dental clinic dismantled by police

PSP Spokesperson

An illegal dental clinic operating without any staff qualification licenses in the Iao Hon area was dismantled by the Public Security Police Force (PSP), the police informed yesterday during a press conference.

According to the case report, police were alerted to the situation by a complaint on October 11 and deployed officers, assisted by the Health Bureau Northern District Inspection Team, to the apartment building where the alleged clinic was operating.

Located at Rua Um do Bairro do Iao Hon, authorities were received by a man dressed in a medical gown who was allegedly responsible for the clinic. The man, a Vietnamese resident in his 40s, handed police a non-resident work permit (commonly known as a blue card) which stated that he had been hired as a domestic helper by a local employer.

The man told police that with the help of friends, he had found the employer who signed his domestic work contract, for which he paid MOP35,000 for.

He arrived in Macau in July and, in fact, started to work for the employer but left after five days.

He then rented the apartment in Iao Hon with the help of his girlfriend, also Vietnamese and working in Macau. He used the apartment to establish the dental clinic.

Although the man had no qualifications, he said he had previously been doing similar work in Vietnam.

According to the PSP investigation, he would have tended to around 30 patients and earned around MOP20,000 through the illegal job.

When asked about the dental equipment and medicines found in the apartment, the man revealed he had acquired the dental chair on the internet for VND40 million (approximately MOP13,840). The medicines were obtained with the help of friends in Vietnam who shipped them to Macau.

The police are also seeking information on the man who had employed the suspect. The suspect told police that he had left his post after only five days and he was never paid any salary, which was why he had not cancelled his blue card.

The suspect has already been presented to the Public Prosecutions Office under usurpation of functions charges.

In a separate case, a group of four women, all Vietnamese nationals aged 20 to 30 years old, were accused of attacking a fellow Vietnamese co-worker.

The case occurred in the early hours of Sunday, when the victim in her 20s was leaving after her shift at a club in a hotel unit in Taipa.

She was then attacked by the group of four, who punched and kicked her. The main suspect used a pair of scissors and stabbed her in the waist.

With the help of the victim, the police managed to identify and locate the four women.

The main suspect admitted to the PSP that she had done it due to a workplace conflict between them. The other three women were said to be friends of the main suspect and helped her perform the attack.