The police arrested a taxi driver on Sunday for allegedly extorting HK$3,000 from three of his male passengers by claiming that one of them had damaged one of the doors on his vehicle, the Public Security Police (PSP) said in a statement yesterday, adding that none of the three passengers had caused any damage to the taxi.
The police identified the male cabbie as a 25-year-old surnamed Lei. The three passengers, aged between 32 and 47, are mainlanders, the police said.
According to the statement, the police received a report about a dispute between a cabbie and a number of passengers. PSP officers went to the scene in Avenida de Kwong Tung (Guangdong Avenue) in Taipa.
This undated handout photo released by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows a PSP officer escorting the rogue cabbie – a suspected blackmailer – to a PSP vehicle at a police station in Taipa.
