Macau's Court of Second Instance has reduced Levo Chan Weng Lin's prison term to a total of 13 years. The former head of the defunct Tak Chun Group has been acquitted of fraud charges, overturning the earlier ruling by the Court of First Instance.

The convictions of the heads of Suncity and Tak Chun, the two largest junket operators in the Macau SAR, has had a "massive impact" in Southeast Asia as VIP gaming promoter networks shifted operations to countries within the region, the Regional Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for Southeast Asia and the Pacific told Asia Gaming Brief.

The Administrative Court of Taiwan has upheld an initial decision by the nation's Immigration Bureau, stating that former junket boss Levo Chan's request for renewal of residency in Taiwan should be denied.

A Macau court has sentenced top junket boss Levo Chan to 14 years in prison after he was found guilty of 34 charges, including enabling and operating illegal gaming and criminal association.

Closing arguments in the case of former Macau junket boss Levo Chan have begun, with the former VIP operation head breaking his silence to deny that Tak Chun was a criminal syndicate. Final sentencing has been scheduled for April

Macau courts are scheduled to hear the closing arguments in defunct junket operator Tak Chun group on March 8th.

Macau courts on Wednesday heard that Macau’s former second top junket operator Tak Chun had operated under-the-table bets with rolling turnover of HK$34.91 billion ($4.46 billion) between April 2014 and February of 2020.

The court hearing involving former prominent Macau junket Tak Chun devolved into a spat on Wednesday, with the defense lawyer accusing the judge of coercing the witness, with the judicial stating that declarations made by the former Tak Chun employee were “absurd” and “vague”.

An official with Macau’s gaming watchdog told courts that former top junket operator Tak Chun had not been found to have generated extra income from illegal activities, based upon the statements the VIP gaming operator submitted to the bureau from 2016.

The Tak Chun junket trial in Macau has already revealed that company employees knew proxy betting was taking place in VIP rooms, but with claims employees had no involvement, with gamblers allegedly using phone apps to bet in Manila casinos.