The police arrested a conman on Thursday for pretending to be a mainland government official who cheated a local woman out of HK$890,000 last year, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said at a regular press briefing yesterday.
According to the spokesperson, a friend of the victim introduced her to the suspect in July last year, telling her that he was a government official in the mainland.
The victim lent him HK$220,000, believing that as a government official in the mainland she could trust him to pay back the loan, the spokesperson said.
