News Analysis Alvin Chau Cheok-wa, the head of Macau’s biggest casino junket operator Suncity Group, was arrested last week along with 10 others for allegedly running illegal cross-border gambling and a money-laundering syndicate. Junket operators are outfits that bring in high rollers to play at casinos. According to Macau police, all of the arrested have confessed that they set up gambling platforms overseas and conducted online betting activities illegally, but have refused to cooperate on the money laundering allegation. But Chau’s nickname “Rice Washing wa,” meaning money laundering in Cantonese, suggests what he is more easily associated with. The Macau police said that they learned in August 2019 that a criminal ring led by Chau had allegedly established platforms and transferred assets illegally. Chau was arrested at midnight on Nov. 27, only hours after prosecutors at Wenzhou, a city in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province, suddenly issued a statement that they …