The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two illegal currency exchange dealers from the mainland separately at two casinos in Cotai on Saturday for allegedly robbing HK$90,000 in cash, together with two other fellow gang male members still at large, from a fellow mainlander at a guestroom of a hotel in Cotai, PJ spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a special press conference yesterday.
According to Chan, the two male suspects, aged 34 and 40, are surnamed Tu and Dai respectively, while the male victim, who was also involved in an illegal currency exchange business in Macau, is in his thirties.
The Judiciary Police were notified about the robbery at about 9:30 p.m. on Friday by an employee of a hotel in Cotai, said Chan, who quoted the victim as saying that he had had an appointment with one of the suspects for an illegal currency exchange deal, so he followed him into a hotel guestroom at about 8:30 p.m. that day when the three other suspects suddenly rushed out of the bathroom in the guestroom, trapping him on the bed and attacking him with a mug, before robbing HK$90,000 in cash from him and fleeing the scene.
Upon identifying the four suspects, PJ officers arrested Tu and Dai in two casinos in Cotai at 1:30 a.m. and 2:25 a.m. on Saturday respectively, according to Chan, who said that the officers seized HK$230,000 in cash and about HK$10,000 worth of chips from the duo, part of which is believed to be the money they robbed from the victim.
Tu and Dai, who both denied committing the crime, were transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) yesterday, facing robbery charges, Chan noted.
Chan said that the mainland police have been contacted to assist in tracing the two other suspects known to have fled to the mainland.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the two hooded robbery suspects from the mainland to a vehicle outside the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday. – Photo: Yuki Lei
