The CCAC received a complaint from a resident, indicating that some workers of an integrated resort enterprise of Macao had disclosed that they had paid placement fees in order to be recruited as stewards. After investigation of the CCAC, it came to light that the supervisor of the stewarding department of the aforesaid enterprise was suspected to solicit bribes from some Chinese mainland residents who intended to work in Macao in return for assisting them to work in the enterprise, which involved an amount of nearly RMB190,000.

Upon investigation, the CCAC found that the supervisor of the stewarding department involved was responsible for issues including personnel recruitment. Since last year, he kept identifying those Chinese mainland residents who had an intention to work in Macao through his cohabiting girlfriend and a middleman by touting that “interviews were not required” or “one could work in a company directly”. Soliciting a placement fee of RMB15,000 to RMB25,000 from each person, he used his power to assist at least nine Chinese mainland residents to enter the enterprise successfully. According to the investigation of the CCAC, a vast majority of the job seekers from the Chinese mainland who had paid the placement fees were immediately recruited without being required to have an interview, with some even failing to meet the minimum academic qualification requirements and being illiterate, which obviously violated the entry requirements and regulations of the aforesaid integrated resort enterprise.

During the investigation of the CCAC, some destroyed evidence to hide the act of receiving the placement fees and also abetted the other persons involved to conceal the relevant situation.

According to the law of Prevention and Suppression of Bribery in the Private Sector, the aforesaid supervisor of the stewarding department, his cohabiting girlfriend and the middleman were suspected to have committed passive bribery in the private sector, and the nine residents from the Chinese mainland who were recruited upon their payment of placement fees were suspected to have committed active bribery in the private sector. The case has been referred to the Public Prosecutions Office for handling.

Pointing out that this is the second bribery case involving a private enterprise it has detected recently, the CCAC once again urges the general public to uphold integrity and be law-abiding. Should private institutions find illicit acts such as active bribery or bribe soliciting performed by their personnel, they are advised to report to the CCAC immediately, so as to make collective efforts to safeguard the fair and clean employment environment of Macao.