A female university student from the mainland was cheated out of 180,000 yuan (MOP 217,000) in a phone scam, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a regular press conference on Monday.
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A man was arrested last Thursday for sexually harassing two local women in August at the Macao-Zhuhai Cross-Border Industrial Zone.
A mainlander was arrested on Saturday when he entered the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) checkpoint for stealing a client’s casino cash chips worth HK$570,000 three years ago.
A key member of a currency exchange gang involved in at least 11 fraud cases totalling about 2.32 million yuan (MOP 2.80 million) was arrested on Friday.
Three men were arrested between last month and this week for their involvement in fake employment.
Two men were arrested on Tuesday for cheating a mainland woman out of 500,000 yuan in a gambling scam.
Two men were arrested on Tuesday for stealing and fencing goods worth more than MOP 350,000.
A 24-year-old local man with a criminal record for sexual harassment in Macao and the mainland was arrested last Friday for committing the same crime involving another local schoolboy in the city’s northern district.
The Macao government aimed to purchase 1.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines covering the city’s whole population – two shots for each person.