Former executive of Saipan casino-related company jailed in Beijing court

A group of 15 defendants were sentenced by a Beijing court on Friday for gambling-related offences, according to an announcement by the court in the Chinese capital. Among them was a woman who served briefly in 2020 as executive director of Hong Kong-listed Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd., a company related to a casino project on the U.S.-controlled Pacific island of Saipan.

The city's First Intermediate People's Court says Cui Li Mei was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison and fined 200,000 yuan ($27,968) for "setting up casinos." The other 14 defendants were sentenced to one year and eight months to seven and a half years in prison for crimes including establishing casinos, "recovering illegal debt" and "organizing people to cross borders illegally."

According to a corporate filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Cui Limay was managing director of Imperial Pacific International Holdings between June 15, 2020 and June 29, 2020.

The company promoted a casino resort known as Imperial Palace Saipan. The gaming license for the property has been suspended since April 2021.

According to several Chinese-language media reports, Cui Rimei is the sibling of a female businessman named Cui Rijaye. The latter resigned as chairman and executive director of Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd. effective June 4, 2021.

The company, which has been suspended from trading on the Hong Kong Exchange since April 1, 2022, is now facing a hearing regarding two reconciliation petitions scheduled for January 2024, which follows a Nov. 22 filing by the company.

The Beijing court's announcement did not say to which jurisdiction the defendant in question had moved the athletes to outside China.

The court referred only to allegations of "unlawful residential entry" and other crimes, including illegal debt collection, as well as allegations that Chou Li-mei and other defendants in the case, led by an individual named "Ji," had "organised and solicited" Chinese in Beijing and provincial cities to "gambling abroad."

The individual named "Ji" mentioned in Friday's announcement was being "processed in a different case," the Beijing court statement noted.

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