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Hong Kong police have arrested 100 suspects linked to scams with losses totalling HK$180 million as part of a crackdown on fraud and money laundering. Sham Shui Po district police said on Wednesday they had arrested 75 men and 25 women, aged 17 to 75, in a two-week operation between May 6 and May 20. The suspects were linked to 82 cases of deception and money laundering involving 295 victims. The biggest single loss was HK$23.7 million, police said. The cases involved fraudulent activities related to investment, online job-seeking, online dating, e-commerce, and phone scam, they added. Chief I...
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Hong Kong has logged fewer phone scam cases in the first quarter of 2024 but losses soared to HK$789 million, with mainland Chinese students in the city being increasingly targeted by swindlers, police have said. The force said they recorded 474 phone scam cases in the first three months of this year – a 21 per cent drop year-on-year, according to local media reports on Monday. But losses almost quadrupled, with cases of scammers pretending to be officials accounting for HK$764 million, or 97 per cent, of the amount lost in the period. More mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong were conned by...
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Hong Kong police arrested five men after thwarting their attempt to rob a jewellery shop in the shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui. No property was stolen. Five men aged between 23 and 35 were apprehended at a jewellery store on Hankow Road at around noon on Tuesday, police sad. Officers seized two knives, three hammers and a red, white and blue plastic bag as evidence. According to the police, officers were sent to the scene to “ambush” the suspects after receiving reports of a suspected robbery attempt. The five masked suspects arrived at the scene in a white private car, with three holding ...
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A Hong Kong court will hear an appeal from the head of the city’s largest journalist group Ronson Chan in November, more than a year after he was sentenced to five days in prison over obstructing a police officer while reporting. Chan, the chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), is scheduled to challenge his conviction and sentencing at the High Court on November 19, according to the Judiciary’s website. The veteran journalist’s case relates to an incident in September 2022, when Chan was reporting on a homeowners’ committee meeting at MacPherson Stadium in Mong Kok. He was stop...
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Hong Kong police have received over 28,000 tip-offs via the anti-terrorism hotline since its launch in June 2022, including reports of suspected possession of weapons and suspected harbouring of explosives. Police told HKFP on Wednesday that public vigilance against terrorism increased as the authorities heightened promotion and educational efforts, and encouraged residents to report suspicious activity. Hotline ‘upgrade’Upon its launch, police said the hotline was an “upgrade” to an existing anti-violence hotline, which was set up in 2019 as city-wide protests erupted against a since-axed ext...
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The finer points of civil servant staffing are not usually a hot news topic. But the latest grim update from the Civil Service Bureau was eagerly covered by Hong Kong’s English-language newspapers. It was not surprising that different reporters made different choices. The “source” was the Civil Service Bureau’s written replies to questions from legislators in response to the budget speech. These were all published on the same day, involved a great deal of repetition, and ran to no well over 300 pages. Having browsed in this heap of information, I think I would have gone for staff dismissals as...
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Hong Kong police have arrested a woman on suspicion of sharing test papers from the city’s university entrance examination online. The documents were leaked on Chinese social networking site Xiaohongshu, local media reported. A 23-year-old woman surnamed Lau was detained on Wednesday for allegedly breaching the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority Ordinance, police said in a statement on Thursday. She was granted bail pending investigation and must report to the force in mid-May. The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) said it filed a police report on Tuesday fol...
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A 15-year-old girl has been arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in seven “guess who I am” style phone scams, which swindled HK$1.75 million out of victims, mostly elderly people living alone. Police said on Tuesday that they arrested the girl in Nga Tau Kok after a bank staffer alerted the force that an 81-year-old man sought to withdraw money, saying that a call told him his family member had been arrested and he was required to pay the bail. The girl was believed to have been recruited by fraudsters via social media platform Instagram and was only told to receive the money, police...
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A 38-year-old woman has been charged with a child abuse offence after her four-year-old daughter was found to have a total of 11 bruises and injuries on her body. The girl had lost consciousness in a bathtub home on Saturday and was sent to hospital. The case was mentioned at Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts on Monday. The suspect faces one count of ill-treatment or neglect by those in charge of child or young person. She was granted bail pending trial next month. The girl was living with her mother and two senior brothers at a private residential building in Kowloon City, local media reported...
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A former Hong Kong police sergeant has been sentenced to 23 years and 10 months in prison for supplying more than 24 kilograms of methamphetamine seized during an operation to a dealer with whom he was having an affair. Ex-Sergeant Hui Sze-hon, 45, and Wong Yeuk-nam, 32, appeared in the High Court on Wednesday, local media reported, after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to traffic a dangerous drug. Wong was sentenced to 16 years and 6 months. Hui was involved in an operation to seize nearly 300 kilograms of methamphetamine, with a street value of more than HK$1 billion, in late Apri...
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