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四內地漢涉高利貸及禁錮等罪被拘
2025年7月13日下午，本局接獲內地男事主報稱因欠下高利貸被人禁錮在路氹城區一酒店房間內。本局博彩罪案調查處經部署後成功於上述房間解救事主並截獲四名涉案內地男子。
案情顯示，事主於2025年7月11日清晨向首名涉案男子及其在逃同黨借款100萬港元賭博，條件為每當賭局勝出時需抽取投注額兩成作利息，以及簽署借據。事主同意後，隨即前往路氹城區一娛樂場賭博，期間事主被抽取約80萬港元利息。同日中午事主賭敗後，首名涉案男子將事主帶返其租住的酒店房間內等待還款，至7月13日凌晨再將其轉移至涉案酒店房間，期間首名涉案男子取去事主的證件，再召來其餘三名涉案男子一同禁錮事主及迫令還款。其後事主乘眾人不察，將事件告知娛樂場公關並要求代為報警。
經查，本局人員於四名涉案男子身上檢獲手機及多張空白借據。
本局根據調查所得，分別以為賭博的不法借貸、剝奪他人行動自由，以及不當扣留證件等罪將四名涉案男子移送檢察院偵辦，並繼續追緝其餘在逃涉案人。
Four mainland men arrested for usury and unlawful confinement
On the afternoon of 13th July 2025, the Judiciary Police received a report from a male mainland victim alleging that he had been unlawfully detained in a hotel room in the Cotai Strip due to an outstanding usurious loan. Following deployment, the Gaming-related Crimes Division of the Judiciary Police successfully rescued the victim at the said room and intercepted four involved mainland men.
Investigation revealed that in the early hours of 11th July 2025, the victim had borrowed HKD 1 million for gambling from the first involved man and his fugitive accomplices, on conditions that 20% of the wager for each winning game had to be extracted as interest plus a signed IOU. Upon agreement, the victim immediately went to a Cotai casino and gambled, while an amount of approximately HKD 800,000 was extracted as interest. By noon that day, having gambled away the money, the first involved man took the victim to his rented hotel room to await repayment. In the early hours of July 13th, he was transferred to the involved hotel room during which the first involved man took away the victim’s identity document and summoned three other involved men to jointly confine the victim and force him to make repayment. Later, when they were unaware, the victim informed a casino PR of the incident and requested to report to the police on his behalf.
Upon investigation, Judiciary Police officers seized mobile phones and multiple blank IOUs from the four involved men.
Based on investigative findings, the Judiciary Police transferred the involved four men to the Public Prosecutions Office with respective charges such as illegal money lending for gambling, deprivation of other’s freedom of movement and inappropriate detention of identity document, while continuing to pursue the remaining accomplices at large.