The Hong Kong Police announced on Monday (July 17) that the Sham Shui Police District launched a crackdown on scientific and technological crimes law enforcement operations and arrested a total of 75 people.
According to the Hong Kong News Agency, these arrested people are aged 17 to 65 years old. They are suspected of "laundering money" and involved in HK $ 240 million (about $ 40.59 million).
The investigation showed that the arrested people were related to 50 fraud cases. The total loss of the case reached HK $ 240 million, and the police had successfully frozen a total of HK $ 6.8 million in crimes.Police believe that the arrested as holders of puppet residence, they suspected that they were deceived by criminals to open a bank account or sell their personal accounts to criminals for crimes of cleaning various scientific and technological crimes.
Among the 50 fraud cases, the case involving the highest fraud was an email fraud in 2019.A Hong Kong local logistics company received an email issued by the senior management of the company's overseas head office, instructing the company to remit money 11 times to four designated hukou, involved 100 million Hong Kong dollars.The company later suspected of being deceived and reported to the case for help.
