(Hong Kong Comprehensive News) The Hong Kong cryptocurrency trading platform JPEX was involved in fraud, and 15 people have been arrested so far, freezing more than 77 million (Hong Kong dollars, the same below, about 13.5 million yuan) assets.

"Hong Kong 01" reported that Deng Bingqiang said on Wednesday (27th) after meeting with the crime committee. When he saw the media, he said that the latest cumulative reports of the JPEX case received a total of 2,392 reports, and more than 300 reporters have been contacted.

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Deng Bingqiang also said that the Hong Kong police will cooperate closely with the CSRC. The investigation direction includes the final flow of operators and assets to prevent similar scam -like incidents from happening again.He also said that if there is a need to conduct foreign investigations, the mechanism has now cooperated with foreign law enforcement agencies.As for whether individual people want to be punished, they will be handled according to evidence. If there is evidence, it will be arrested or prosecuted.

Hong Kong police have launched large -scale law enforcement operations against JPEX since September 18.The Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission issued a statement on the 20th, saying that JPEX has never been in contact with the Securities Regulatory Commission for any possible license application, and there is no entity in the JPEX Group to be issued by the Securities Regulatory Commission, or has applied to the Securities Regulatory Commission to run a license to operate a virtual asset trading platform in Hong Kong.Essence

Earlier, the Securities Regulatory Commission pointed out that JPEX looked for a store through social media Internet celebrities and virtual asset venues to promote its services and products to the Hong Kong public.

The Hong Kong government is vigorously promoting the development of the cryptocurrency industry.The Chief Executive Li Jiachao said on the 19th that he was very concerned about the JPEX case and said that "the development of virtual assets must have an effective supervision system to ensure investors."