A local man has been arrested for allegedly allowing a scammer to use his bank accounts which were then used for laundering money linked to at least over a dozen scams, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said at a special press conference yesterday.
The 37-year-old suspect surnamed Lai is a doorman.
According to Leng, a man told the police in May that he had been scammed by a fraudster purported to be a school staff member, where the victim was tricked into ordering items for the school from a “supplier” for a certain amount of profit, but lost contact with the scammers after he had paid for the items, losing 92,400 patacas.
While tracking the money, the police discovered that Lai’s bank accounts had received money from the victim, as well as at least 12 more victims who had fallen for online placing orders scams, laundering over a total of 100,000 patacas for fraud gangsters.
Lai was arrested in his workplace in the northern district on Monday. Under questioning, he refused to cooperate.
Lai was transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) yesterday, facing charges of money laundering and fraud, Leng said.
The hooded money laundering suspect is being escorted by Judiciary Police (PJ) officers from the PJ headquarters in Zape to a vehicle yesterday. – Photo: William Chan
