The police arrested on Monday a female and six male members of a fraud gang from the mainland that provided its members with “fraud training” specialising in cheating casino loan sharks in Macau, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference at the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday.
According to Chan, the seven suspects, aged between 25 and 51, are from Guangxi, Henan and Heilongjiang, surnamed Bai, Huang, Sun, Wang, Xie, Xu, and Yu. The gang’s five victims are members of a casino loan-sharking syndicate from the mainland. Their surnames were not released.
The case started at around 1 a.m. on Monday in a casino VIP room in Cotai. Bai, the alleged kingpin of the fraud gang, made a deal with the five loan sharks in the VIP room. He signed an IOU, his ID was retained and he agreed to pay the syndicate 30 percent “interest” on every winning bet. Then Bai borrowed HK$220,000 for gambling, Chan said.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the seven hooded “fraud-trained” suspects to a PJ vehicle outside the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday. Photo: Iong Tat Choi
