Two women and a man were arrested last week for involvement in a sham marriage, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman said at a press briefing on Monday.
The three suspects comprise a 43-year-old woman surnamed Yang who told the police that she works as a casino dealer. Yang is a mainlander and obtained a Macau ID card in 2011. The second suspect is a 52-year-old local female shop assistant surnamed Sou. The third suspect is a 48-year-old local jobless man surnamed Kam who is Sou’s boyfriend, and they live together. The spokesman said that apart from the three suspects a male mainlander surnamed Yang is involved in the case as well. He is the husband of the woman surnamed Yang.
According to the spokesman, the Identification Services Bureau (DSI) recently referred a suspected sham marriage case to the Public Security Police for follow up investigation. PSP officers discovered that the two Yangs married in 2000 in the mainland. They divorced in the mainland in 2006 and after just one week, the woman married the local man surnamed Kam. After Yang obtained her Macau ID card in 2011, she divorced Kam in 2013 and remarried her “ex-husband”, Yang in 2015.
The spokesman said that the Public Security Police discovered that Kam’s girlfriend (Sou) had married Yang’s ex-husband (Yang) in the mainland. However, as the mainland’s Public Security Bureau (PSB) launched an investigation into their marriage they divorced.
According to the spokesman, PSP officers arrested the female Yang when she entered the Barrier Gate checkpoint last Wednesday and on the same day, the Public Security Police told Sou and Kam to report to a police station for questioning. Yang told the police that she knew Kam when she worked in Macau as a nurse years ago. Kam suggested Yang pay him 20,000 yuan (25,000 patacas at yesterday’s exchange rate) for a bogus marriage deal in order for her to get a Macau ID card. Sou told the police that Kam suggested she get HK$40,000 from the male Yang to enter into a sham marriage for him to obtain a Macau ID card. However, their marriage was under investigation by the mainland police in 2013 so they then divorced.
The case was transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) last Thursday. The trio face charges of involvement in a sham marriage and document forgery, according to the spokesman.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) on Monday shows PSP officers escorting the suspected sham marriage trio to a police station.
