THELOGICALINDIAN - Hong Kong badge accept arrested a man accused of burglary 202485 from a cryptocurrency banker in what angry out to be a artificial transaction No funds were recovered at the time of the suspects arrest and investigations are advancing to actuate if the man had accomplices
No Funds Recovered
Hong Kong badge afresh arrested a 24-year-old conman accused of vanishing with a crypto trader’s $191,085 (HK$1.5 million). The con artisan now faces a accessible ten-year bastille appellation if convicted, a address has said.
According to a South China Morning Post report that capacity the suspect’s plan, no funds were recovered back law administration agents assuredly apprehended the 24-year-old on May 10. The alone items appear to be recovered were a adaptable phone, necklaces, and the clothes the doubtable wore at the time the abomination was allegedly committed.
Explaining how the doubtable managed to vanish with the bearding cryptocurrency trader’s funds, Hong Kong badge ambassador Tong Sin-tung of the Yau Tsim bent analysis assemblage said:
Further Arrests a Possibility
Hong Kong badge accept the doubtable may accept acclimated a rear avenue of a boutique in Tsim Sha Tsu to get away. However, afore vanishing, the doubtable is appear to accept larboard the cryptocurrency banker and her colleagues bound up central the shop. After acumen they had been duped, the cryptocurrency banker alleged the police.
Meanwhile, the address said detectives accept yet to actuate if the doubtable had accurately set up the appointment to con the crypto trader. The badge are additionally attractive at the achievability that the doubtable may accept accomplices, Tong added. The ambassador added the badge are not cardinal out the achievability of added arrests.
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