A local man was attacked with a glass bottle by a man attempting to rob him of HK$1.5 million patacas in a casino-hotel resort in Cotai on Wednesday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Cho Man said during a regular press conference yesterday.
According to Chan, the victim, in his fifties, received a phone call from a man on Wednesday, who asked him to exchange yuan into HK$1.5 million. The victim took the cash to a guestroom at the casino-hotel resort, where he had arranged to meet the man.The victim runs a money-exchange business for gamblers.