The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a Hong Kong couple for fraud and document forgery, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a special press conference yesterday.
Leng identified the couple as a 69-year-old male and a 48-year-old female surnamed Lo and Yeung, respectively, both claimed to be jobless. Leng identified the victim as a middle-aged non-resident male.
According to Leng, on November 20 last year, the victim told police that he had been defrauded by the couple under the pretence of investing in a local casino’s VIP room operations, promising “high profits”. According to the victim, he lost around HK$28 million (28.8 million patacas) in the investment scam.
In 2023, the victim was introduced by a friend to Lo, who claimed to run a Hong Kong company and to have secured a contract for VIP room operations at a casino in Zape, persuading the victim to invest, according to Leng. Later that year, the couple invited the victim to Macau for a visit, Leng said. During the trip, Leng added, the couple took the victim to “inspect” the casino’s VIP room, showing him photos of what appeared to be cooperation agreement documents signed with the casino operator.
Leng said that the couple also promised a monthly return of three percent on the invested principal. The victim, who trusted the couple’s offer, then transferred two million yuan to a designated Chinese mainland bank account at the end of October 2023, as instructed.
Between November 2023 and January 2024, Leng said, the victim received monthly “cash returns” of HK$66,000 from Yeung. Lo then requested additional investment under various pretexts, after which the victim transferred a total of 6.4 million yuan and delivered HK$19 million in cash.
By April 2025, the victim had invested around HK$28 million in total and had received around HK$4 million in purported “returns” during the period, according to Leng, adding that the victim reported the case after Lo stopped providing him with the promised monthly “returns”. Besides, the victim was unable to recover his investment.
Leng said that PJ officers investigating the case discovered that neither the couple nor their company had entered into any cooperation agreement with the casino, and their “documents” presented to the victim turned out to be forgeries. Furthermore, Leng said that the “returns” received by the victim were actually paid out from the victim’s principal investment funds.
On Wednesday afternoon, PJ officers arrested the couple at the Barrier Gate checkpoint arrivals hall and seized a company stamp, two smartphones and HK$222,000.
The couple were transferred to the Public Prosecutions Officer (MP) yesterday, facing charges of fraud and document forgery.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the hooded fraud and document forgery Hong Kong suspects to a PJ van outside the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday. – Photo: Armindo Neves
