The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a local woman on Tuesday for defrauding the government out of a subsidy and an interest-free loan for businesses supposedly affected by the deadly Super Typhoon Hato which hit Macau in August 2017, PJ spokesman Choi Ian Fai said during a special press conference yesterday.
Choi identified the suspect as a 30-year-old surnamed Un who told the police that she is a businesswoman. The case involved a shop unit – of which Un is a co-owner – in Travessa da Louça, an alley in the Inner Harbour area near Praça de Ponte e Horta.
After Hato pummelled Macau on August 23, 2017, which caused massive flooding in the city’s low-lying areas, the government launched the next day a scheme of handing out a subsidy of up to 50,000 patacas to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) affected by Hato, and a scheme providing an interest-free loan of up to 600,000 patacas for the affected SMEs.
Judiciary Police (PJ) escort the Hato-related fraud suspect to a PJ vehicle outside the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday. Photo: Iong Tat Choi
