Three men was arrested last week for their alleged involvement in illegal employment in Macau, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement on Friday.
According to the statement, the Public Security Police saw two men delivering construction waste while on patrol in Estrada Marginal do Hipódromo (馬場海邊馬路) last Tuesday and told them to show their identity documents. The statement said that one of the men is a non-resident worker from the mainland while the other one held a fake non-resident work permit. The officers then discovered that the duo were renovating a flat in Avenida da Praia in Areia Preta district. The officers went to the flat where the owner told the police that the renovation had been arranged by a decoration company but he did not know whether the two men who worked in the flat were authorised to work in Macau. The officers suspected the owner of having illegally hired the man holding the fake non-resident work permit. The three suspects were taken to a police station for questioning.
The statement said that the three suspects come from the same home town in the mainland.
The suspect who held the fake non-resident work permit is in his fifties. He is the person-in-charge of a decoration company and received 200,000 patacas from the flat owner in July to renovate his flat and hired a mainlander to assist in the decoration at a daily rate of 600 patacas. The officers discovered that the mainlander is a non-resident worker employed by another decoration company. The worker admitted that he had worked at the flat on his day off.
The statement said that the case has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) and that the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) has been notified.
The flat owner faces an illegal employment charge while the mainlander who held a fake identity document faces a document forgery charge, according to the statement. The third suspect faces a charge of working outside the scope of his work permit, according to the statement.
