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三名香港男子涉犯罪集團及相當巨額詐騙被拘
2023年2月23日及24日,本局先後接獲兩名本澳女子的檢舉,均報稱在家中透過其固網電話收到自稱是“兒子”的來電,對方聲稱出了一些狀況急需現金解困,更對其中一名事主表示因涉及私人糾紛被警方拘留,需要支付龐大的保釋金,兩名事主均不虞有詐,最終受騙,兩名事主及後向家人提及後才揭發事件,分別損失288,340澳門元及損失400,000港元。
本局資訊罪案調查處立即展開調查,證實兩名事主均被同一個犯罪集團詐騙,該團伙多次派人到事主的住所樓下收取騙款,更安排另外兩名同伙負責到場把風、監視及事後保管騙款。經調查,本局確定三名該犯罪集團香港成員的身份。
2023年2月24日,上述三名犯罪集團成員於港珠澳大橋澳門口岸被截獲,本局人員並在三人身上搜獲103,500澳門元,相信為作案所得。他們均承認犯案及受僱於同一犯罪集團,供稱只曾來澳作案兩次,同時承認知悉涉案的款項是犯罪集團詐騙所得,並聽從上線的指示協助犯罪集團接收騙款後再轉移予其他上線成員,事後更根據案中分工可獲取不同比例的騙款作為報酬,惟拒絕提供上線的進一步資料。
本局以犯罪集團罪及詐騙(相當巨額)罪將三名涉案人移送檢察院處理,並繼續追查其他在逃作案人及騙款的下落。
Three Hong Kong men involved in criminal syndicate and fraud of considerably huge amount under arrest
On 23rd and 24th February 2023, the Judiciary Police received complaints successively from two local women, both of whom reported that they had received a call from someone who claimed to be their “son” through the fixed-line telephone at home, indicating that something happened and he was in urgent need of cash to solve the problem. The caller even told one of the victims that he had been detained by the police due to a personal dispute, thus he needed to pay a large amount of bail. In the end, the two unsuspecting victims fell prey to the scam. The incident was brought to light after the two victims mentioned it to their family members, incurring losses of MOP288,340 and HKD400,000 respectively.
The I.T. Crimes Division of the Judiciary Police immediately launched an investigation and confirmed that both victims had been defrauded by the same criminal syndicate, which dispatched someone to the downstairs of the victims’ residences to collect the fraudulent proceeds on multiple occasions, and also arranged for two other accomplices to keep watch and surveil at the scene, as well as safekeeping the fraudulent proceeds afterwards. After investigation, the Judiciary Police confirmed the identities of three Hong Kong members of the syndicate.
On 24th February 2023, the above-mentioned three members of the criminal syndicate were intercepted at the Macau Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. The Judiciary Police personnel also seized MOP103,500, which were believed to be the criminal proceeds, from the three individuals. All of them admitted that they had committed the crime and had been employed by the same criminal syndicate, confessing that they had only come to Macao for the perpetration twice. They also admitted to knowing that the money involved in the case was obtained by the criminal syndicate through fraud, and followed the instructions of their upper-level members to assist the criminal syndicate in receiving the fraudulent proceeds and subsequently transferred to other upper-level members. After the perpetration, they would obtain different percentages of the fraudulent proceeds as rewards according to the division of labour in the case, yet they refused to provide further information about the upper-level members.
The Judiciary Police transferred the three involved individuals to the Public Prosecutions Office for the offences of criminal syndicate and fraud (considerably huge amount), while continuing to pursue the whereabouts of other perpetrators at large and the fraudulent proceeds.