Macau resorts remain vulnerable to various level of crime<\/a>, including terrorism.<\/p>\nNot Soft on Crime<\/h2>\n
The Asian gambling enclave’s casinos won $33 billion last year, but despite the money influx that flows through the world’s richest gambling hub, thefts are relatively rare. When they do occur, casino employees are typically involved.<\/p>\n
The last major Macau casino heist took place in 2016, when junket middlemen pocketed $12.75 million from the operations of at least 10 VIP rooms that should have gone to casinos.<\/p>\n
While Macau is a special administrative region of China that has its own laws when it comes to gaming and taxation, it does adhere to strict penalties, similar to those enforced by the People’s Republic, when it comes to crime.<\/strong><\/p>\nAccording to the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology<\/i>, a text widely used to interpret the complexities of the Chinese judicial system, penalties for those found guilty of high-value theft in Macau include up to 15 years in prison, and often forced labor.<\/p>\n
Chinese prisons are also some of the most brutal detention centers in the world. Last fall, a human rights attorney working to expose the prison system was himself jailed for “inciting subversion of state power,” a charge often placed on critics of the Communist Party.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThose accused of crimes additionally have little recourse. Chinese prosecutors have a 99.9 percent success rate when it comes to convictions.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The theft of $6.1 million in gaming chips from the Wynn Macau on Tuesday is being attributed by local authorities to a male VIP room dealer at the casino, who remains at large. Judiciary Police have already made other arrests in relation to the robbery, however. Three locals were taken into custody for sharing confidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":67607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Wynn Macau VIP Dealer in $6.1 Million Casino Chip Heist Still at Large<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n