A 36-year-old jobless local man who offered to sell his government-issued consumption subsidy smartcard through a social media chat group, was arrested on Wednesday.
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The Judiciary Police (PJ) urged residents on Tuesday to be wary of possibly fraudulent text messages offering them an investment opportunity.
A mainland overstayer was arrested last Thursday for buying and selling forged arrival cards.
Three locals comprising a married couple and a second man, including the suspected kingpin, were arrested on Wednesday for cheating four local women aged between 20 to 30 out of MOP 1.43 million.
The Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) recently detected a subsidy scam involving a local education centre defrauding the government-funded Continuing Education Development Plan.
A local woman who suspects that her ID card data has been used three times by someone to buy facemasks from pharmacies reported the case to the police last Saturday.
Two men and a woman were arrested and a speedboat was seized on Monday in another people-smuggling case.
A 55-year-old local man surnamed Mak, allegedly involved in four armed robberies before Macau’s return to the motherland in 1999, was on Monday transferred to Macau by the Guangdong Public Security Bureau.
The Court of First Instance (TJB) on Monday adjourned the trial of the ex-president of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), Jackson Chang, and his 25 co-defendants for corruption and a string of other alleged crimes.