MPS makes arrests in China
The Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) arrested 93 suspects on home soil connected to an illegal RMB 725.5bn ($100.8bn)...
Gambling kingpin jail-bound
The Court of First Instance in China’s Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Macau has sentenced gambling kingpin Alvin Chau to 18 years...
sSuncity Group is finding its financial situation increasingly thinner. The casino investor and junket operator is already dealing with a number of problems, but a Vietnamese subsidiary defaulting on a loan makes matters worse. Suncity has lost a lot of the traction it built over the past decades as a result of the arrest of […]
NagaCorp has changed its mind about building an integrated resort in Russia. It had already begun construction of its development in the city of Vladivostok, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is canceling those plans. Two years ago, NagaCorp was completely behind plans to bring gaming to Russia’s Primorye Gambling Zone. It saw huge possibilities for […]
China continues to proclaim that individuals and groups involved in the illegal facilitation of cross-border gambling will be targeted in 2022 and the years ahead. Gambling is mostly illegal everywhere in China other than in Macau, one of two Special Administrative Regions (SARs) in the People’s Republic. The two exceptions are China’s state-run lotteries — […]