‘Suncity Exec’ Gets Prison for Refusing to Answer Police Questions

A woman arrested inwards November as constituent of Macau’s Suncity investigation has been sentenced to ix months inwards prison, suspended, for refusing to cooperate with authorities.

Macau Business reports she was ace of 11 people detained on Nov 27, on with Suncity chairman and CEO Alvin Chau. They are being held on suspiciousness of outlaw association, illicit gaming exploitation, and money laundering.

In a financial statement Monday, Macau’s bench police said the woman, identified only when by her lowest name, “Ho,” had refused to response questions during interviews. This was despite beingness informed past “the law and the Prosecutor’s Delegate of her rights and duties.”

Under Macau law, failure to bear witness without just do is a criminal offense punishable past upwardly to triad years inward prison.

Who’s Ho?

Ho was referred to Macau’s Margaret Court of First Instance. At her sentencing, the justice noted that inward add-on to denying her transgression, she expressed no remorse for her actions. The suspended sentence is dependant upon(p) on a “donation” of 5,000 pacatas (US$623) within the next tercet months.

Macao News reports the woman is believed to be 1 of Suncity Group’s senior executives. Casino.org has been unable to chance any women at the keep company named Ho who fulfilled such a role. However, there is one high-level distaff executive with that call listed at a well-known Suncity subsidiary. But Casino.org is unable to verify that this is the same somebody mentioned inwards the constabulary statement. “Ho” is a real common shoemaker's last epithet inward the region.

The detention of Chau and 10 of those who worked for him came just now years after authorities inwards mainland Communist China filed a warrant for his arrest, and it sent shockwaves through and through Macau’s gaming industry.

It signaled the ending of the junket sit inward Macau that had erstwhile generated some 60 percent of revenues in the world’s richest play hub.

Mighty Fallen

Suncity was the biggest junket operator inwards the world, which Chau had grown into an international conglomerate, with interests inwards everything from existent demesne to resort hotel developing and moving picture production.

But Chinese authorities are waging a warfare against cross-border gambling and have got tally come out of longanimity with the junkets. For years, they feature supplied Macau’s casinos with a steady current of wealthy Chinese mainlanders, loaning them currency for play to go around Beijing’s strict controls on the motion of money.

Meanwhile, many junketers make been dour past rumors of malefactor association. This includes Chau whom Aussie authorities trust was in one case a member of the 14K Triads below notorious offense boss “Broken Tooth” Wan Kuok-koi.

Suncity’s Macau junket branch, Suncity Gaming Promotion Company Limited, was officially injury upward on December 1.

If convicted, the 11 suspects human face upward to 12 years in prison.