The Judiciary Police (PJ) nabbed three local residents and three mainlanders for fake employment and illegal employment on Thursday, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a special press conference on Friday.
Leng identified the three local suspects as a 64-year-old businessman surnamed Ho, a 56-year-old businesswoman surnamed Ao Ieong who is also the wife of Ho, and a 41-year-old businessman surnamed U. The three mainland suspects are a 29-year-old salesman surnamed Liang, a 39-year-old salesman surnamed Huang and a 35-year-old technician also surnamed Huang.
According to Leng, PJ officers recently discovered that the older Huang had been employing Liang and the younger Huang for residential renovation work in Macau, paying them a daily wage of 700 to 800 patacas. The older Huang is suspected of having used fraudulent employment relationships to apply for non-resident worker ID cards (colloquially known as blue cards) on their behalf, Leng said.
Upon investigation, Leng said, the older Huang collaborated with a construction company ran by Ho and Ao Ieong, which awarded renovation projects to the older Huang and facilitated fraudulent employment procedures on his behalf to help him obtain a blue card, Leng said, adding that the couple paid the older Huang a project fee of 100,000 patacas.
Through another trading company owned by U, Leng said, the older Huang arranged fake employment for the younger Huang and Liang by paying U a “fee” of under 40,000 patacas, enabling U to obtain blue cards for them both. Under questioning, police confirmed that the duo never actually worked for the trading company, Leng said.
On Thursday, Leng said, PJ officers arrested Liang and another mainland worker who did not have a blue card at a renovation project in Fai Chi Kei district, while the two Huangs were arrested at a flat in San Kio district. The three businesspeople involved in the case were arrested after questioning by police, according to Leng.
The sextet were transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) on Friday, all facing charges of fake employment, while the older Huang also faces an illegal employment charge.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the six hooded suspects to a PJ vehicle outside the PJ headquarters in Zape on Friday. – Photo: Armindo Neves
