Detectives in Hong Kong have arrested the reputed head of Britain's Wo On Lok triad society in raids on illegal SAR bookmaking dens, the South China Morning Post can reveal.
Separately, police sources believe senior Wo On Lok figures here and in London have connections to Hong Kong ID card holder Liu Wai-yuen, also known as 'Danny' who was named yesterday as being at the heart of an alleged English soccer match-fixing racket.
Liu, 37, has no criminal record here, and has lived in Britain for 20 years.
It is not yet known if the suspected head of the Wo On Lok in Britain - now believed to be on bail here - is connected to the floodlight racket.
But sources also say that the Wo On Lok control Chinese organised crime rackets in London's Kensington district where police seized documents relating to the floodlight scandal this week.
The raids carried out last weekend by the Organised Crime and Triad Bureau (OCTB) were in connection with multi-million dollar bets placed on horse racing.