The CCAC has detected two cases of document forgery involving fraud over the “Income Subsidy” of the Government of the Macao SAR. The persons involved have allegedly committed the offences of document forgery and fraud under the Penal Code and the amounts of money involved were higher than MOP700,000 and MOP200,000. The relevant investigation has been completed and the cases have been referred to the Public Prosecutions Office. The Macao SAR Government implemented the “Temporary Measures for the Income Subsidy” in January 2008, aiming to subsidise permanent residents with low income to ease their life pressure. According to these measures, employees with monthly working hours not lower than the stipulated hours and a quarterly income not exceeding the stipulated amount are eligible for application of the subsidy. It was discovered that between 2009 and 2014, the owner of a property management and cleaning company, when applying for the “Income Subsidy” on behalf of his employees, submitted false information to the Financial Services Bureau (DSF) by understating the wages and overstating the working hours of the employees and even faked their personal data in an attempt to fraudulently obtain the supplementary allowance amounting over MOP700,000. In another case, when applying for the “Income Subsidy” to the DSF, between 2012 and 2015, on behalf of the property administrators, the president of a property administration committee intentionally understated their wages and named part of the wages as “allowance and bonus”, which was paid separately on a different date in order to conceal the actual amounts of their incomes, having thus received, by fraudulent means, more than MOP200,000 from the Macao SAR Government.
