The Macao police have nabbed seven suspected illegal laborers at a downtown square, local media reported Monday.

Macao Post Daily quoted police sources as saying that the police personnel Friday launched a swoop on the site based on a tip-off and captured the seven suspects and their local employer.

The employer during the interrogation admitted that he hired " the visitors," which all hold travel documents issued by the mainland authorities, to set up a stage for the celebration of the Lawyers Day, the police sources were cited.

The government of the Macao Special Administrative Region has recently intensified the fight against the illegal employment of laborers from nations and regions including the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and the Philippines.

The employment of illegal workers is a crime that incurs hefty fines and imprisonment in case of repeat offenders. Illegal employed workers are customarily ordered to leave Macao.

Source: Xinhua