Hong Kong police crack down on cross-border fraud, seizing a virtual money fraud center.

gate News bot message, the Hong Kong police launched a large-scale law enforcement operation from April 7 to 17, arresting a total of 503 people, cracking 404 fraud and technology crime cases, with a total amount involved reaching 1.56 billion Hong Kong dollars.

The police, in collaboration with mainland public security, successfully dismantled two cross-border crime groups. The first group recruited puppet members to come to Hong Kong to purchase gold jewelry, laundering the proceeds from fraud cases in the mainland, involving 240 mainland cases with an amount of 18.5 million RMB. The second group specialized in providing fake documents to open puppet accounts; the mainland side has already dismantled a fake document factory and arrested 12 people, while the Hong Kong side arrested 4 people, involving 61 local fraud cases with an amount of 26.7 million HKD.

The police discovered a fraud center in an industrial building in Tsuen Wan, where the center lured victims to open online stores on a fake e-commerce platform through online dating platforms, and charged them using virtual currency. The police have arrested 11 people.

Source: Xinbao