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Updated Sunday, March 8, 2009 2:14 am TWN, AP

Macau arrests leader's relative in graft case

Macau -- Macau authorities have arrested a woman suspected of laundering money for her husband - reportedly a relative of the chief executive of the Chinese gambling enclave.

Macau's Public Prosecution Office said Friday that Lam Man I was arrested at the airport after arriving from Taiwan. It did not say when she was detained.

Lam and her husband, Chan Lin Ian, are on Interpol's wanted list in connection with allegations of money laundering. Hong Kong newspapers have reported that Chan's sister is married to Macau leader Edmund Ho's brother.

The statement said Lam allegedly helped Chan launder money in the graft case of former senior official Ao Man-long.

Ao was sentenced in January in 2008 to 27 years in jail after being found guilty of taking millions of dollars in bribes, laundering money and abusing his power to help property developers win construction contracts.

He is standing trial now on new charges in connection with the corruption case, considered the biggest ever to occur in Macau.

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