Macau authorities to crack down further on illegal online gambling

Macau authorities and its six licensed gaming operators have teamed up to share information in order to further crack down on illegal online gambling in the Special Administrative Region.

The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) met with the Macau judiciary police, the region’s three gaming concessionaires and its three subconcessionaires “to discuss measures against illegal gaming websites”.

At the meeting, acting director of the DICJ Luo Lishan agreed that the Bureau will perform searches and collect information about illegal gaming websites, which it will then submit to the Judicial Police on a regular basis.

This information sharing, as well as the sharing of information between licensees and authorities, will take effect from 1 April.

Su Zhaoqiang, director of the gaming and economic crime investigation department of the Judicial Police, said that the police had started blocking illegal gambling websites in 2018, and ramped up its enforcement last year, with 1,352 sites blocked – more than the total number blocked from 2018 to 2020.

Source: https://igamingbusiness.com/macau-illegal-online-gambling/