Disgraced Macau junket radical Suncity’s media and entertainment fortify is mulling a figure vary as it seeks to space itself from its jailed founder, Alvin Chau.

Sun Entertainment Group Ltd has place it to shareholders that it should get “Yeah Yeah Group Holdings” to distance itself from the Suncity Group brand. This would aid “improve its corporate image” and meliorate reverberate its “business and its future tense developing direction,” Macau Business reports.

The fellowship will enquire shareholders to balloting on the issue at its next yearly superior general meeting, which is yet to follow convened.

Sun Entertainment has invested, produced, and distributed o'er 150 movies, mostly within the Hong Kong photographic film industry.

Recently, these experience included Enter the Fat Dragon, a Kung Fu activeness comedy well-nigh a scallywag cop who gains free weight due to emotional issues. It took $38,561 at the package office.

According to its website, it has also unionized 90 concerts, exhibitions, and plays inward Hong Kong, Macau, and around the world. Unusually, it also provides funeral and cremation services.

Triads in Macau

But its origins prevarication in the triad-backed junkets that fought vicious sward wars for hold of Macau’s illegal gambling dens and sound cassino VIP rooms inwards the 1990s.

The to the highest degree powerful triad grouping inward Macau was the 14K, led past notorious mobster “Broken Tooth” Wan Kwuok Koi. Among his ranks was a young triad named Alvin Chau, according to Aboriginal Australian authorities.

In November 1999, Wan was sentenced to 15 years inward prison house on charges of illegal gambling, loansharking, malefactor association, and the attempted car-bombing of a police force chief.

Two years later, Macau opened its previously monopolized gambling casino securities industry upwardly to international operators, and it grew into the human race biggest gambling hub.

Much of its byplay was goaded by the junkets, which funneled a steady stream of Chinese high-pitched rollers into the enclave, lending them gaming money to short-circuit controls on the social movement of immediate payment out of mainland China.

While Broken Tooth languished in prison, Chau became unthinkably wealthy. Macau’s casinos hitting their top in 2014 when gaming revenue was to a greater extent than US$45 billion, troika times that of Las Vegas.

Around 60 percent of this was goaded by the junkets, and Chau’s company, Suncity, was the biggest, method of accounting for around 40 percent of the junket market.

During this period, triads became “legitimate” businessmen, and Chau grew Suncity into a multi-billion conglomerate with interests inward casinos, existent estate, and, through Sun Entertainment, the amusement business.

Chau Down

But Chau was non logical sufficiency for the governance inward Beijing, which gradually missed its longanimity with the junket manufacture as it escalated its warfare on cross-border gambling.

Last November, days after Chinese authorities issued a stock warrant for Chau’s arrest, he was detained by authorities inwards Macau on charges of operating a felon syndicate, offering illegal online procurator betting from the Philippines, and money laundering.

It signaled the collapse of the once-all-powerful junket industry inwards Macau. In December, Suncity’s junket arm, Suncity Gaming Promotion Company Ltd (SGPC), was dissolved.

Chau is stock-still a major shareholder inwards the wider Suncity Group, which owns casinos inwards Russian Federation and Viet Nam and is edifice the Westside City Project in Manila, the Philippines.

He is awaiting trial.