Monday, March 29, 2010 | 8:33 a.m.
A murder-for-hire case sheds light on the links between China's secretive triad societies and Macau's booming gambling industry, according to a Reuters report. It also raises potentially troubling questions about one of the world's largest gaming companies, Las Vegas Sands, which plans to open a $5.5 billion Singapore casino resort in late April.
Cheung Chi-tai was not just named as a triad member but also, according to a regular casino patron testifying in the trial, "the person in charge" of one of the VIP rooms at the Sands Macau, the first of three casinos run here by Las Vegas Sands.
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