A local woman was arrested last Tuesday at her home in Areia Preta district for participation in a sham marriage and lending her Macau ID card to her elder sister from the mainland when the latter gave birth, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman said on Friday.
The 60-year-old suspect surnamed Chao told the police that she is a petrol station attendant.
According to the spokesperson, the Macau Identification Services Bureau (DSI) recently referred a suspected sham marriage case to the Public Security Police for follow-up investigation. PSP officers arrested Chao at her home in Areia Preta district last Tuesday. Under questioning, Chao admitted to having entered into sham marriage with a mainland man and applied for him to move to Macau for a family reunion. During the investigation, the officers discovered that two of her five children were born within seven months.
Chao told the police that she gave her Macau ID card to her mainland elder sister who illegally entered Macau many years ago so that she could give birth in Macau. The officers later went to Chao’s sister’s home in Toi San district and questioned her and her husband. The couple are aged between 60 and 70. She admitted to using her sister’s ID card when she gave birth in Macau. She got a Macau ID for herself when the local government granted amnesty to illegal immigrants in the 1980s, the spokesman said.
The case has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing a range of charges such as making a false statement and using another person’s ID card for fraudulent purposes.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) on Friday shows a PSP officer escorting the sham marriage suspect to a police station.
