The Executive Council announced this Monday that a proposed law to combat illegal gambling crimes in Macau would introduce “undercover agents” and create a protection regime for those who cooperate with the police.
Recognizing the “high rate of evasion and cover-up of crimes related to illegal gambling,” the proposal introduces “undercover agent provisions” and also creates “a new regime of protection for those who provide information or cooperate with them.” . together with the police in identifying the criminals,” Executive Council spokesman Andre Cheong Wen Chong said at a press conference.
The figure of the “undercover agent,” as the then director of the Justice Service explained, is not new in Macau: “We have this figure in other anti-crime laws, especially in the anti-drug law,” noted Leong Weng. IN.
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