Arrest of Macau’s ‘Junket King’ Tests Chinese Extradition

Visitors take photos outside the Wynn casino resort with a view of the Grand Lisboa casino resort building (top C) in Macau, China, on March 5, 2019. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images

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The recent arrest of Alvin Chau, CEO of Suncity Group, the world’s largest junket operator in Macau, raised the question of whether he’ll be sent back to China, a move that experts believe lacks legality and imposes a challenge to the “One Country, Two Systems” in Macau.