The Judiciary Police (PJ) have announced that the local and mainland police arrested seven Zhuhai men – in Macau and the neighbouring city – for their alleged involvement in an intricate scam case in which a businesswoman from the mainland who had obtained a loan of HK$3.3 million from a businessman on the mainland tried to deceive her lender by planting the idea in his mind that her credit cards had been stolen, in an attempt to delay repaying the loan plus interest.
PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon announced the convoluted cross-border case during a special press conference on Friday.
The announcement of the case came after a mainland businesswoman – the one mentioned in Friday’s press conference – reported to the police last Tuesday that HK$3 million in cash that she had put in a bag had been stolen by four men – including her friend – at a pawnshop at the Golden Dragon Hotel in Zape. Following a provisional investigation at that time, PJ officers said they believed that the businesswoman’s friend – apparently in cahoots with the other three men – had set the woman up to cheat her out of her money.
A Judiciary Police (PJ) officer (first from right) on Friday briefs reporters about the evidence and cash seized in last week’s convoluted cross-border scam case, as PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon (second from right) looks on, in a pressroom at the PJ headquarters in Zape. Photo: PJ
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