The Public Security Police (PSP) have transferred an Indonesian man and a mainland woman to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) for their separate theft-by-finding charges, involving 20,000 patacas and a mobile phone worth 17,200 patacas respectively, according to PSP spokesman Cheong Heon Fan.
According to police reports, a female local victim withdrew 20,000 patacas from an ATM in the lobby of a hotel in Cotai at 2:45 p.m. on December 18 last year. She walked away forgetting to take the cash, while another female victim from India left her mobile phone worth 17,200 patacas in a cab which she took from Rua de Goa in Zape at about 1:30 p.m. on December 1 last year to a hotel in Taipa, Cheong said during a regular press conference at the Judiciary Police (PJ) headquarters in Zape on Friday.
After scrutinising the police forces’ citywide CCTV camera system, the Public Security Police identified the two respective suspects as an Indonesian man surnamed Hendra and a mainland woman surnamed Tang, Cheong said, adding that the two suspects in their thirties left Macau after they had committed the crimes.
The Public Security Police arrested the duo last Monday and Wednesday when they entered Macau again via the local airport and Hengqin checkpoint respectively, Cheong noted.
Under questioning, Hendra admitted to picking up and keeping the money the local victim had left in the ATM, while Tang admitted to taking possession of the mobile phone the Indian victim had left in the taxi.
Cheong said that Hendra had handed over the stolen money to the police, but Tang had taken the stolen mobile phone to her home in the mainland.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) on Friday shows a number of 1,000-pataca banknotes seized from one of the two theft-by-finding suspects.
