Inside Asian Gaming

IAG AUG 2022年8月 亞博匯 103 十年之前 Monge – in an effort to allay the fears of the tourists – to quip, “Our triad gunmen are excellent marksmen” who “would not miss their targets and hit innocent bystanders.” By 1999, the year of the handover, the number of annual homicides in Macau had grown to 42, but as Chinese rule grew closer it became clear that a new age of reckoning was upon us. A year earlier, in 1998, authorities arrested the leader of the 14K triad Wan Kuok Koi, better known as “Broken Tooth”, after a bomb exploded under the car of Judiciary Police director Antonio Marques Baptista. Although he would not ultimately be charged with the bombing, he nevertheless later spent 15 years in prison on charges of loansharking, money-laundering and being a member of a criminal organization, among others – charges notably similar to those currently facing former Suncity Group CEO Alvin Chau following his arrest in November 2021. Also attracting headlines in the months before the handover was the arrest and execution by firing squad of Hong Kong gangster Ye