A day after the director of the DICJ’s Compliance Audit Division, Ms Wong Long Peng, testified that she never came across any information indicating Macau junket operator Suncity Group was involved in “betting under the table”, three more DICJ inspectors offered similar versions of events on Tuesday.
The case in question involved 21 defendants, including former Suncity CEO Alvin Chau, who is charged with criminal association, illegal gambling and money laundering.
The three DICJ inspectors were called to the stand on Tuesday with all testifying they had not seen any betting under the table or telephone betting activities in Suncity VIP rooms during the course of their work.
The three inspectors have since been promoted to the positions of Consultant Inspector, Head of 1st Inspection Division and Head of Operations of the DICJ.
In their evidence, they said they had not seen such activities nor had they received any complaints or reports of anything similar taking place.
“Any criminal activity that occurs in VIP rooms is usually referred to the Judicial Police,” they explained.
Asked whether any telephone betting activities were advertised in the Suncity VIP rooms, one of the witnesses said, “Once we saw an advertisement for an overseas casino in the VIP room’s cashier and we informed our superiors and had it removed by order of the concessionaire.”
As previously reported by IAG, director Wong told the court on Monday that information she had reviewed in Suncity’s financial statements were “not very different from the commission information provided by the concessionaires.”
The case will continue on Thursday.
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