Chinese Businesswoman Charged for Selling Illegal Lottery Tickets

Jia Bi Wang

In the magistrate court, Belize City businesswoman, forty-six year old Jia Bi Wang, was slapped with a huge fine, many times the amount for selling three dollars and seventy-five cents in illegal Boledo last year. Wang was ordered to pay the fine by June thirtieth of this year or in default was facing six months in prison. Today in court, however, Wang changed her not guilty plea to guilty and was fined five thousand dollars. In July of 2014, a Police Constable reported that he saw when Wang sold illegal Boledo to a customer at her place of business, Kim’s Shop located on Iguana Street Extension. The eyewitness PC said that after he saw the customer pay for the Boledo, he then approached the counter and identified himself as an officer and requested the illegal Boledo from the man. Wang was subsequently taken to the police station and charged and today she was fined.