The Public Security Police (PSP) have busted three bogus marriages, arresting two men and three women on Tuesday last week, according to a PSP statement on Saturday.
The statement identified the suspects as a local woman in her fifties surnamed Kam, a mainland man also in his fifties surnamed Gan, a Hong Kong woman in her fifties surnamed Lau, a mainland woman in her thirties surnamed Wang, and a mainland man in his fifties surnamed He.
According to the statement, while following up on the “family reunification” case involving He and Kam in 2023, the Public Security Police (PSP) discovered that He had registered his marriage with Kam just a few months after divorcing his ex-wife in 2019 in mainland China.
The statement noted that Kam married Gan in 2008 in mainland China and later applied for Gan to settle in Macau under the pretext of family reunification. Gan obtained a Macau resident ID card in 2013 and divorced Kam in 2014. After his divorce, Gan married Wang in 2014, introduced by Lau, and assisted Wang in obtaining a Macau resident ID card in 2019, and their marriage ended in 2020. Meanwhile, Kam married He in 2019, and He obtained a Macau resident ID card in 2023. The police summoned and apprehended the five suspects at the Barrier Gate checkpoint last Tuesday after uncovering the three sham marriages.
Under questioning, Gan admitted to entering into a sham marriage with Wang, claiming that there were no financial interests involved. However, he denied that his marriage with Kam was fraudulent, only admitting that they had never lived together as a married couple. Both Kam and He also admitted that they had never lived together as a married couple.
Additionally, the police discovered that Gan had been living with Lau since 1995. Lau acted as the “intermediary” for the sham marriage between Gan and her niece, Wang. Furthermore, Gan and Lau registered their marriage in Hong Kong in 2024 and are still recognised as a married couple.
The five suspects have been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing charges of document forgery.
This undated handout photo taken from the Public Security Police (PSP) website shows PSP officers escorting the five bogus marriage suspects into a police station.
