Alvin Chau Trial: Macau Cops Present Evidence of Illegal Suncity Betting Ops

Former Suncity chairman Alvin Chau “used his full corp to unravel under-the-table bets,” an ship's officer of Macau’s Judiciary Police (PJ for its Portuguese acronym) told Macau’s Court of First Instance Wednesday.

PJ investigator Mak Weng Kin presented the royal court with a two-hour plus Powerpoint presentation, which he said elaborated Suncity’s involvement in illegal gambling.

This included wiretapped sound calls, financial statements, and internal incorporated documents, presented as evidence of illicit multiplier wagering.

Chau and 20 other defendants linked to the now-defunct mega-junket Suncity are standing trial on charges of illegal gambling, felon association, fraud, and money laundering.

Billion-Dollar ‘Tax Dodge’

Central to the example is the allegement that Chau and his troupe profited past offering an illegal side-betting operation that allegedly cheated the Macau regime out of simply over US$1 1000000000 inwards gaming taxes.

This mired the junket aggroup surreptitiously offering to manifold stakes on official bets placed past VIP clients at Macau casinos. These would live settled later, tax-free, according to prosecutors.

Under cross-examination last-place month, Chau claimed that under-the-table betting was rife inwards Macau, but his fellowship was not mired inward it.

Testimony from Macau play regulator DICJ lowest week appeared to backwards that up. Three former DICJ investigators said that they had seen “no evidence” of illegal betting inwards Suncity’s VIP rooms.

But that contradicted earlier testimony from former Suncity Marketing Department employees and an IT worker, who claimed he had been tasked with building a scheme to cognitive process multiplier factor bets.

Hidden Department

On Wed Mak told the courtyard that Suncity had processed at to the lowest degree 62,000 under-the-table bets, worth US$102.6 billion, betwixt 2013 and 2021.

The surgery was a “hidden department” of Suncity, according to Mak, and was headed up by Cheong Chi Kin, also a defendant.

Mak said law had seized documents that contained tutorials advising Suncity employees on how to assist clients put illegal bets.

From direction executives to frontline workers, the Market Development Department [of Suncity] was considerably aware of under-the-table bets,” claimed Mak, as reported and translated past Macau Business.

Suncity was the biggest operator inward the junket industry, which at one time swarm monumental revenues into Macau’s casino sector. But the Chinese authorities inwards Peking blamed the industry for facilitating money laundering and capital letter flight.

Chau was arrested inward November 2021 and Suncity’s junket variance was dissolved shortly afterward.

The tribulation continues on Thursday. Final arguments are scheduled to be heard November 21.