The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested 11 men and women from the mainland on Tuesday for alleged membership of a loan-sharking gang which for six months had offered casino patrons gambling loans.
PJ spokesman Choi Ian Fai announced details of the case during a special press conference yesterday. The five male and six female suspects are aged between 22 and 44, Choi said.PJ officers recently received information that a number of mainlanders were providing gamblers with loans in casinos and that they were based in a residential flat in Taipa, according to Choi.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the 11 hooded loan-sharking suspects to a PJ vehicle outside the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday. Photos: Iong Tat Choi
This photo taken yesterday in a Judiciary Police (PJ) pressroom shows evidence, including business cards, seized in the loan-sharking gang’s flat in Taipa.
