2023-04-21 05:26:15
[Reporter Cai Yiting/Taipei Report]The 42-year-old An Yixuan married Chen Ronglian, the owner of the Macau Dejin Group, in Hawaii in 2017. After marriage, he settled in Macau and had a pair of children. However, the happy life of the family of four changed in November the year before last. Chen Ronglian was arrested Suspected of illegal gambling, fraud and money laundering, earning at least NT$5.7 billion in illegitimate benefits, was prosecuted for 83 counts, and was sued by the Macau government for regarding NT$2.24 billion. He was detained on the eve of the Lunar New Year last year. Complete silence, today (21st) the verdict of the first instance, Chen Ronglian was found guilty of a total of 34 charges, and was sentenced to 14 years in prison, including 10 years in prison for one crime of underworld; he was calm when he appeared in court to hear the sentence.
The business of Dejin Group owned by Chen Ronglian includes investment and management of resorts, hotels and casinos, gaming intermediary business, casino contracting, and through some subsidiaries to China’s hotels, asset management, real estate development, warehousing industry, construction engineering industry For investment, the net worth is as high as tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars.
In November last year, he was accused of participating in the money laundering case of Zhou Zhuohua (Xian Mihua), the founder of Macau Sun City, and even opened casinos in China to operate illegal gambling, fraud and money laundering. The content pointed out that Chen Ronglian used the “Dejin VIP Club” in the six major gaming companies to attract gamblers with higher commissions to “gamble on the bottom line”. Gambling with others in the form of multiplication, there will be gaming intermediaries and partners during the period, and the other party will also send people to monitor, which is often used for tax evasion or money laundering.
The accusation also shows that during Chen Ronglian’s illegal operation, from April 2014 to February 2020, the total turnover of codes was regarding 34.9 billion patacas (approximately 132.9 billion Taiwan dollars), earning at least approximately 1.5 billion patacas (approximately 5.7 billion Taiwan dollars). ), resulting in a loss of more than 570 million Hong Kong dollars (approximately 2.24 billion Taiwan dollars) in gaming tax revenue in the Macau SAR.
Chen Ronglian was arrested by the Macau Judicial Police on January 30 last year. In August of the same year, he was formally prosecuted by the Macau Procuratorate on 83 counts, including 1 crime of gangster syndicate and 39 counts of “illegally operating gambling in a licensed area”. 33 counts of quite large amount of fraud, 8 counts of attempted large amount of fraud, 1 count of illegal gambling, 1 count of money laundering with aggravated circumstances, and the Macau government demanded NT$2.24 billion, and has been detained for more than one year. It is following two lunar years without going home for reunion.
In addition to Chen Ronglian, the defendants Chen Jinzhi, Wang Peiqiong, Liao Yongheng, Zhang Xiubi and Li Daquan were all required to pay 2.24 billion yuan to the Macau Special Administrative Region through joint liability; Wynn, Macau Entertainment Group, Venetian, and MGM also proposed more than 380 Civil claims ranging from 10,000 yuan to more than 48 million patacas (approximately 14.47 million to 180 million Taiwan dollars).
According to “Allin Media” in Macau, the judge pointed out that 3,409 of Dejin’s more than 650,000 gambling records were related to the bottom line of the bet, and his illegal profits exceeded 1.5 billion patacas (approximately 5.7 billion Taiwan dollars); Jin’s senior vice president, Wang Peiqiong, is involved in the electric investment business, and will also distribute bonuses to employees. The illegal income from Dejin’s internal accounts is mixed with the legitimate income of the casino, and then flows into Chen Ronglian’s bank account.
Chen Ronglian was eventually charged with 24 counts of “illegal gambling in a licensed area”, 7 counts of “quite huge amount of fraud”, 1 count of “illegal gambling”, 1 count of “money laundering” (aggravated), and 1 count of “Underworld crimes”, a combined total of 14 years in prison, subject to appeal.
According to the “Macau Daily” report, there are 9 defendants in the whole case, only the detained Chen Ronglian appeared in court today, and he remained calm throughout the whole process. As for the other defendants, Wang Peiqiong, Zhang Xiubi, Liao Yongheng, and Li Daquan established a long-term organized and stable illegal gambling group in the name of Dejin VIP Club. And obtaining the electric investment system, managing the group’s finances, and committing a triad crime; plus a considerable amount of fraud and other crimes, they were sentenced to a total of 10 years, 10 years, 11 years, and 7 years in prison respectively.
The fifth suspect, Chen Jinzhi, the seventh suspect, Cai Weizhen, the eighth suspect, Li Manxing, and the ninth suspect, Tan Guichang, were all acquitted due to insufficient evidence.
The case officially opened in December last year. Among the nine defendants, only Chen Ronglian was present, but he remained silent throughout the entire process and did not defend himself. He said in court that he didn’t want to answer questions, and only applied to the court for paper and pen records through his lawyer. On that day, the court opened 43 auditorium seats, which were almost full in the morning, but An Yixuan was nowhere to be seen. The court was held once more the next week, but Chen Ronglian suddenly changed, strongly denied the crime, and even swore to the judge that he would not participate in the daily management of the casino, “not going to the casino a few times a year.”
Chen Ronglian said that the group has been established for more than 10 years, has an operation team, and has established a management structure model. At the same time, he clarified that he has never seen a training document that says “gambling is equivalent to tax evasion and is an illegal gambling behavior”, and he has never seen his colleagues make it. As for being accused of “gambling on the bottom line”, he even swore: “I can swear to the judge to God!” Denying that Tak Chun had any bottom line betting. But why did De Jin burn the documents? Chen Ronglian revealed that the six major gaming companies notified the termination of the contract, and then closed the casino in December 2021. They burned and cleaned up in order to prevent interested parties from selling customer information. It should have been destroyed first.”
In February, the latest news from the Macau court indicated that in the Chen Ronglian case, a total of 5 witnesses, including the current director and director of the Macau Gaming Supervision Bureau, testified, but none of the 5 witnesses provided evidence that Chen Ronglian violated the law. No complaints regarding “peripheral gambling” have been received, and most of the complaints are illegal smoking from the Health Bureau.
Huang Guosheng, chairman of the Macao Daily Readers Public Welfare Foundation, replaced Chen Ronglian to testify in court, telling regarding his contribution to social charity and public welfare activities, praising him for being low-key and polite, approachable, and having a wide range of friends, and helping the poor and running schools everywhere. Charity and public welfare, he is a very positive person, and the testimony mentioned above is a plus for Chen Ronglian.
The case was closed on March 8 this year. Chen Ronglian first apologized to all employees, and then moved out the 90-year-old father and two children, and said: “Children often ask mother, why doesn’t father come home?” He emphasized , “Dejin is not a criminal group. I hope the judge will find out the truth, make a fair verdict, acquit me and my employees, let us live a normal life with our family as soon as possible, and continue to contribute to the country and society.” The content of the speech is even more From time to time, he praised the Macau government, “With the government’s opening up of the gaming industry and the country’s strong support for Macau’s development, Tak Chin has the opportunity to achieve today’s scale.”
Faced with the huge difficulties her husband encountered, An Yixuan only said “thank you for your concern”. Afterwards, Facebook and IG were suspended for more than a year; Weibo was completely emptied. There was a rumor that she chose to divorce herself to protect herself, and she would come back to film and raise children Children, but everything is unproven speculation. Since the incident, An Yixuan’s words and deeds have been the focus of attention, but she has changed her past enthusiasm and sharing personality. She has been low-key and silent all the way, and has survived 446 days of worrying regarding her husband in the distance. Today, she is waiting for the preliminary results.
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