A mainland man spent 60,000 yuan on obtaining a local work permit through a fake employment contract in December last year when he started to engage in illegal currency exchange deals in Macau until he was arrested by Judiciary Police (PJ) officers at a hotel in Taipa on Thursday, PJ spokesman Cheong Kim Fong said on Friday.
According to Friday’s special press conference, PJ officers on duty at a hotel in Taipa targeting illegal currency exchange dealers caught Ai, aged 35, who was in possession of a local work permit, which showed that he was employed as a delivery man in a food wholesale company in the northern district.
Under questioning, Cheong said that Ai told the police that he had paid 60,000 yuan through illegal channels in the mainland in December last year in order to obtain a local work permit, and since then he had run his illegal currency exchange business in Macau, but never worked at the food wholesale company that had obtained the work permit (informally known as “blue card”) for him.
Cheong noted that the Judiciary Police arrested the owner of the food wholesale company, surnamed Chan, at a residential flat in the northern district at 9 a.m. on Friday, adding that Chan, 52, refused to cooperate with the police, but there were strong indications that Chan, a local resident, was involved in arranging the fake employment.
The Judiciary Police transferred Ai and Chan to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) at the end of the press conference, where both face charges of involvement in arranging fake employment.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the two hooded men suspected of involvement in a fake employment scam from the PJ headquarters in Zape to a vehicle on Friday. – Photo courtesy of TDM
