{"id":8311,"date":"2022-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/asia\/alvin-chau-cheok-wa-trial-first-36-sentenced\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T00:00:00","slug":"alvin-chau-cheok-wa-trial-first-36-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"asia","link":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/asia\/alvin-chau-cheok-wa-trial-first-36-sentenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvin Chau Cheok Wa trial, first 36 sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">A total of 36 individuals involved in a cross-border illegal gambling syndicate linked to former Macau junket boss <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#0563c1\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/asia\/trial-of-tak-chuns-levo-chan-set-to-start-dec-5-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Alvin Chau Cheok Wa<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"> were all found guilty by an intermediate court in Zhenjiang province&rsquo;s Wenzhou on Friday (yesterday), receiving imprisonment of up to 7 years and a half, Chinese state-owned broadcaster CCTV reported.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">The report said the cross-border illegal gambling syndicate&mdash;allegedly headed by Mr Chau, the boss of now-defunct junket operator Suncity Group&mdash;had conducted illicit cross-border payments and transactions worth about RMB1.16 billion (US$163.5 million\/MOP1.31 billion) over the years that &ldquo;severely disrupted the order of the financial market&rdquo; in Mainland China and profiteered over RMB17 million. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Mr Chau is not one of 36 defendants in the three cases handled by the Wenzhou court, which said earlier this year the charges against him would be handled in another case. The former junket boss is now facing charges of illicit gambling activities, criminal syndicate, fraud, and money laundering in a separate trial in Macau that began on 19 Sept, following his detention in the city since last November.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">The 36 defendants in the three cases, including Zhang Ningning, Zhang Shixiu and Zhong Haiyan, were found to commit the crimes of &ldquo;opening casinos and illegal business operations&rdquo; in the mainland by the Wenzhou court on Friday following a series of hearings between 10 and 12 August, CCTV said. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Besides jail terms varying from one year and three months to seven years and a half, all the 36 accused were also handed down fines ranging from RMB50,000 and RMB3 million. Among the defendants, 35 accepted the verdict while one will appeal, the report added.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">The amount of money involved in these cases is particularly huge, and [the syndicate] has severely disrupted the social order of the country,&rdquo; the Wenzhou court was quoted saying. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/assets\/international\/alvin-chau-cheok-wa-trial-first-36-sentenced2.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">According to the verdict cited by the state-owned broadcaster, the syndicate of Mr Chau had set up online gambling platforms based in the Philippines and other places since 2015, and organised trips and provided services for mainlanders to gamble in Macau or participate in online gambling.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Through the asset management firms established by the syndicate in the mainland, as well as underground banks, the syndicate offered cross-border money exchange and settlement services for mainland gamblers and collected gambling debts, the verdict said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">The syndicate had developed into a scale of more than 280 mainland Chinese shareholders, over 38,000 mainland Chinese agents and more than 60,000 mainland Chinese gamblers as of November 2021, the verdict added.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Zhang Ningning&mdash;who is also known as Cheung Ling Ling&mdash;received and accepted an imprisonment term of seven years and a fine of RMB800,000, CCTV said. She is one of the 21 defendants alongside Mr Chau in the Macau case.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Pang Kexun, also one of the 21 defendants in Macau, was also found guilty in the Wenzhou case, but the CCTV report did not specify his exact sentence. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Au Wang Tong, also among the 21 accused in the city, was named by the Wenzhou court in the verdict but it said the charges against him would be handled in a separate case.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 36 accused were also handed down fines ranging from RMB50,000 and RMB3 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5699,"menu_order":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4200],"class_list":["post-8311","asia","type-asia","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-alvin-chau-trial-suncity-trial-news-china","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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