Macau’s Top Regulator OK’d for Another Two Years

Sat, May 8, 2021

After less than a year as head of the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, Adriano Marques Ho has received a vote of confidence from the government in the form of a term extension through 2023.

Macau’s Top Regulator OK’d for Another Two Years

Adriano Marques Ho, director of Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau since last June, has been confirmed as head of the territory’s casino regulatory agency for another two years.

Macau Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng initially appointed Ho to the post last June, six months after taking over stewardship of the territory’s government.

Macau is ruled autonomously as a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China and is the only place in China where casinos are legal.

Prior to joining the DICJ, as the bureau is known known by its Portuguese initials, Ho served for six years as head of the local sub-bureau of the China National Central Bureau of INTERPOL.

From 2010 to 2012, he oversaw the Criminal Investigation Division of the Macau Judiciary Police and later moved to the force’s Gaming and Economic Crimes Division, which he headed from 2012 to 2014.

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