Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Kam Ka Kit said during a regular press conference on Friday that a local couple in their forties received 22,600 patacas from a Malaysian man to “fake hire” him by using the quota of the local man’s car wash premises, adding that the trio were arrested on Tuesday.
Kam noted that the male suspect, surnamed Chan, is the car wash’s owner while the female suspect surnamed Lam told the police that she works as a casino public relations (PR) worker. Kam added that Lam is Chan’s girlfriend and acted as a “intermediary” in the case. Kam pointed out that the 35-year-old Malaysian suspect, surnamed Ngui, told the police that he works as a sales manager in Macau.
During a routine investigation, Kam said, the police discovered that although Ngui was employed by Chan to work at his car wash in November 2019, he was often not in Macau which was not in line with the nature of his job, so the police suspected that Ngui was involved in “fake employment”.
Kam said that the police intercepted Ngui when he was entering Macau through the Barrier Gate checkpoint on Tuesday, adding that based on the information provided by Ngui, the police contacted Chan and Lam and summoned them to a police station to assist in the investigation.
According to Kam, under questioning, Ngui claimed that he met Lam in a casino in 2019, who told him that she could help him obtain a non-resident worker permit (informally known as a “blue card”) by means of “fake employment”, so as to facilitate his Macau entries and exits, while Chan confessed that he had received 22,600 patacas from Ngui to help him obtain a “blue card” with his quota, adding that Ngui never worked in the car wash, and neither was he paid any salary. Lam admitted that she had helped Ngui obtain a “blue card”, but insisted that she did not receive any “commission” from Ngui, Kam added.
Kam said that Ngui told the police that he’s a shareholder of a casino VIP room, adding that he needed to stay in Macau most of his time to deal with his business, so he obtained a fraudulent “blue card” with the help of Lam.
Lam, Chan and Ngui have been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), where they face charges of involvement in fake employment, according to Kam.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) on Friday shows officers escorting the three suspects in the “fake hire” case to a police station.
