The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a 25-year-old local man on Sunday on suspicion of telling lies to the police that he had been robbed of HK$100,000.
A PJ spokesperson said at a special press conference yesterday that the suspect, surnamed Leong, was asked by his friend to withdraw the HK$100,000 cash from his friend’s account in a VIP room on Sunday. After Leong obtained the money, he used HK$80,000 of it to repay a gambling loan.
As Leong had embezzled the money and was unable to hand the cash to his friend, he reported to the police the same day that he had been robbed of HK$100,000 in order to make his friend believe that he was a robbery victim, the spokesperson said.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort a local man suspected of making up a robbery from the PJ headquarters to a PJ van yesterday.- Photo: Iong Tat Choi
