Five non-resident workers (NRWs) from the mainland have been arrested for their involvement in fake employment, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lam Keong said in a regular press conference yesterday.
Lam said that the suspects are surnamed Wang, Fan, Wu, Wei, and Yang. They are aged between 26 and 39 and were employed in a restaurant on Rua de Bruxelas in Zape. All of them are women except Fan. They were employed at different times between April and November of last year.
According to Lam, the Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested in mid-April another two of the NRWs who had been working in the same restaurant for engaging in illegal money exchange activities. PJ officers later transferred the case to the Public Security Police on the suspicion that the two NRW applications involved fake employment, after discovering that the duo’s purported working hours in the restaurant did not match their Macau entry and exit records.
PSP officers conducted several inspections of the restaurant from mid-May to this month and found that Fan, Wu, Wei, and Yang were not working at the restaurant during the inspections, while Wang, a clerk at the restaurant, told the police that she had been tasked with handling the suspects’ NRW applications.
Fan, Wu, Wei, and Yang were summoned to a police station for questioning last week, Lam said. They admitted to paying the local employer surnamed Lei 75,000 to 105,000 yuan (84,000 to 118,000 patacas) for local work permits (colloquially known as “blue cards”) so that they could work as currency exchange dealers.
The five suspects have been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing document forgery charges, according to Lam, adding that the police were still investigating Lei’s whereabouts.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows police officers escorting the five mainland suspects to a police station.
