The Judiciary Police (PJ) yesterday announced the arrest of a 71-year-old woman from the mainland on suspicion of cheating a 52-year-old businessman from the mainland out of four million yuan by persuading him to invest in a casino VIP room which she claimed she was running.
A PJ spokesperson said at a regular press conference yesterday that the suspect, surnamed Yan, met the victim last year in the mainland. She told the victim, surnamed Yao, that she was running a VIP room in a casino in Macau, the spokesperson said, adding that she persuaded the victim to invest money into the VIP room by saying that he would get 20 percent of the monthly profits.
According to the spokesperson, the victim deposited a total of four million yuan into the suspect’s bank account in the mainland in March and April last year.
