Audit on Macau’s junkets yields mixed results—so far

Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has started auditing the city’s 126 licensed junket operators as mainland China’s anti-corruption drive continues.

And the results had been mixed so far, according to DICJ director Paulo Martins Chan.

“We had started junket audits during this year,” Chan told reporters at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia 2017. “Up to now we did 40 junkets, some of them are good of course, some of them need some improvements so we had told them to improve their accounting system.”

The Chinese territory has seen the number of its licensed VIP gaming promoters drop from 141 last year to 126 in January 2017. Macau authorities previously attributed the year-on-year decline to some junket operators failing to meet the DICJ’s tighter standards for financial accounting, which were imposed following a series of high-profile internal theft incidents that shattered junket investor confidence.