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Former Macau triad boss Wan Kuok-koi, also known as “Broken Tooth,” photographed in Macau in the late 1990s. Credit: David Paul Morris
At 7 a.m. on December 1, 2012, with a crush of media waiting nearby, the Coloane Prison in the Chinese territory of Macau released one of the region’s most notorious gangsters — Wan Kuok-Koi, better known by his street name: Broken Tooth. Dressed in a white, long sleeve shirt, the then 57-year-old Wan had served nearly 14 years in prison for a host of crimes, including loan sharking and illegal gambling. In the 1990s, when Macau was still administered by Portugal, Broken Tooth had been the r
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