The Public Security Police (PSP) busted last Wednesday an illegal mahjong parlour on Avenida Marginal do Lam Mau in the Fai Chi Kei neighbourhood, PSP spokesman Wong Chi Weng said at a regular press conference yesterday.
In the operation, according to Wong, the Public Security Police arrested four locals – three females and a male, including the parlour’s female operator in her sixties, while they also seized two mahjong tables and a number of mahjong chips.
According to Wong, the Public Security Police received last Wednesday a report about an illegal mahjong parlour in a ground floor shop on Avenida Marginal do Lam Mau. PSP officers arriving at the scene found the four suspects on the mezzanine floor of the shop, who told the officers that they were about to play mahjong, but “police officers arrived there before they had started”.
Under questioning, the illegal mahjong parlour operator surnamed Wong admitted to having started her “business” in March, with a table rent of 80 patacas per table and a “commission” of at least 20 patacas per game, adding that she had earned 500 patacas per month since then.
The four suspects in their fifties and sixties have been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) for further investigation.
According to Macau’s gaming legislation, commercial mahjong businesses can only be run by the city’s six gaming concessionaires.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows PSP officers escorting the four illegal mahjong parlour suspects to the Nam Van (Praia Grade) Police Station.
