A Hong Kong woman has been arrested for involvement in a fraud case, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Lei Chi Hou said at a regular press conference yesterday.
The 24-year-old suspect surnamed Chu told the police that she works in the financial sector.
According to the local male victim’s report, in April last year he met a woman claiming to be from Taiwan on social media who told him that she was a tea trader. She persuaded him to invest with her in a tea business. The victim paid her HK$56,000 through online bank transfers to purchase some tea. However, the victim never received the tea as promised, prompting him to report the incident to the police.
The police traced the transferred funds to an account belonging to Chu. On Saturday, Chu was apprehended when she entered Macau via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) checkpoint.
Under questioning, Chu claimed that a friend had “borrowed” her bank account, and that she did not know how the victim’s money ended up in her account.
Chu has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing fraud charges, Lei said.
