The Hong Kong cryptocurrency trading platform JPEX involved in fraud continued to be burned. The Hong Kong police arrested four people in Hong Kong and Macau, and said that the investigation has entered the core part of the fraud network and the core characters of the locking group.
According to the online media "Hong Kong 01" on Friday (September 29), Hong Kong and Macau law enforcement units have carried out three -day joint operations from Tuesday (26th), arrested in Hong Kong and Macao, respectively.People, also seized and frozen assets of HK $ 24 million (about $ 4.17 million).The four arrested are Hong Kong residents.
As of now, the Hong Kong police have arrested 18 people and frozen assets of HK $ 100 million.
Zhong Yongmin, Assistant Director of the Hong Kong Police Department (Criminal), said that when the Hong Kong police initially launched an investigation, most of them were members of the overseas trading market (OTC).However, at present, the investigation has gradually entered the core part of the JPEX fraud network, and the tracked people have also played an important role in the fraud network.
Zhong Yongmin said that the police have locked the identity of other target characters, but some people have left Hong Kong, and the police will fully arrest them through the international police collaboration mechanism.At this stage, the main investigation direction of the police was to find the main ambassador behind the JPEX case and try their best to recover the stolen money.
Zhong Yongmin described the JPEX case with the most victims and the largest amount of losses in recent years.As of now, the Hong Kong Police has received a total of 2417 victims, involving the amount of HK $ 1.5 billion.Due to the large number of reporters, the admission confession for them alone is a big project.
She said that the police would use all resources of the Ministry of Criminal Ministry, including the investigation department of business crimes, criminal intelligence section, network security and scientific and technological crimes, wealth intelligence and investigation section, drug investigation department, organized and three threeThe Investigation Division of the Association participated in the investigation.
The Hong Kong Police has launched a large -scale law enforcement operation 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
