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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 503 people and cracking 404 fraud and technology crime cases, with a total amount involved reaching 1.56 billion Hong Kong dollars.
The police, in collaboration with the 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 proceeds from 240 mainland fraud cases, involving an amount of 18.5 million yuan. The second group specialized in providing fake documents to open puppet accounts. The mainland side has 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 Hong Kong dollars.
The police discovered a fraud center in an industrial building in Tsuen Wan, which 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
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