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[Big money in Tsim Sha Tsui] Two cases in two days! Businessman loses $ 8 million foreign currency couple loses HK $ 10,000

2020-01-11T03:11:19.718Z


On Saturday morning (11th), a jewellery businessman in Tsim Sha Tsui was robbed by four bandits to a luggage bag carrying more than $ 8 million in foreign currency. According to information, there have been multiple robberies since the end of last year. Among them, three bandits in Mong Kok on Friday (10th) robbed a couple of money changers. Off-duty police officers subdued two thieves, including a 16-year-old. Regarding the frequent occurrence of recent robberies, the police earlier pointed out that the robberies in the first 11 months of last year increased by 28% year-on-year, from one every three days in previous years to one case every other day this year, and the robberies doubled. Earlier, Li Guihua, senior police superintendent of the Organized Crime and Triad Investigation Division of the Police, pointed out that there were two causes for the crime, one was social ethics and the other was opportunity.


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Written by: Shao Peilin, Huang Weimin

2020-01-11 10:57

Last updated: 2020-01-11 10:57

On Saturday morning (11th), a jewellery businessman in Tsim Sha Tsui was robbed by four bandits to a luggage bag carrying more than $ 8 million in foreign currency. According to information, there have been multiple robberies since the end of last year. Among them, three bandits in Mong Kok on Friday (10th) robbed a couple of money changers. Off-duty police officers subdued two thieves, including a 16-year-old. Regarding the frequent occurrence of recent robberies, the police earlier pointed out that the robberies in the first 11 months of last year increased by 28% year-on-year, from one every three days in previous years to one case every other day this year, and the robberies doubled. Earlier, Li Guihua, senior police superintendent of the Organized Crime and Triad Investigation Division of the Police, pointed out that there were two causes for the crime, one was social ethics and the other was opportunity.

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Jewellery trader robbed of € 1 million by four bandits

The incident occurred on Saturday morning, with robberies in Tsim Sha Tsui and Tuen Mun! The incident occurred at 8 am on Saturday (11th). When a man passed by 25 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui, several suspicious persons approached the victim and snatched his luggage. The thief fled immediately and the police are investigating the incident. The source said that when one of the thieves escaped, he accidentally dropped his wallet and remained at the scene of the incident. Police officers seized the investigation.

Tuen Mun man claims robbed of "Golden Labor" injured and intercepted by ambulance for help

Another robbery occurred at about 7 am this morning. A man walked out of the road across Qingtian Road, Tuen Mun, and stopped an ambulance passing by the upper site. The man reported that he was robbed of a golden Rolex watch, his eyelids and mouth bleed, and his face was bleeding, asking the ambulanceman to send him to hospital. The man was soberly taken to Tuen Mun Hospital for treatment. Police are investigating the incident.

Frequent robberies increased last year

In recent months, robberies have been frequent. According to police statistics, there were a total of 147 robberies in the previous year, of which 94 were detected. The number of robberies from January to November was 133, of which 75 were detected. From January to November last year, there were 170 cases of robbery, of which 62 were detected, 37 more than the same period of the previous year. As for the robbery of gold shops / jewelry shops / watch shops in the whole year before last year, all of them were detected.

Three of them were detected by the police from January to November last year, and the remaining two were detected in December. From January to November last year, there were 13 robberies in gold shops / jewellery shops / watch shops, of which only 3 were detected, which is 8 more than the number of robberies in the same period of the previous year.

Recent robbery in Hong Kong:

Two robberies occurred in Yau Ma Tei within an hour and a half this morning. Among them, a gold shop on Shanghai Street was robbed of more than 1 million Hong Kong dollar gold by six masked gangsters, and four shop windows were damaged. (Photo by Chen Kangzhi / profile picture)

2019-12-30: A middle-aged man running a business arrived in a seven-seater vehicle outside Hankou Center, 4 Ashley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. The diagonal bag contained 500,000 yuan in cash. The knife thief robbed his bag and lost 500,000 cash.

2019-12-23: On the ground floor of No. 495 Shanghai Street, Yau Ma Tei, six masked men broke into and frightened the person in charge of the shop with a knife, then broke the window and robbed a batch of gold articles, with a total value of about 1 million Hong Kong dollars.

2019-12-23: Outside 695 Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei, a man was also robbed by two robbers, robbing more than 200,000 yuan in cash, and the victim was sent to the hospital with two sticks swooping from behind.

2019-12-20: A man in a gold shop on Castle Peak Road, Sham Shui Po. A man posing as a customer and robbed with a 24 cm table knife. He stole a batch of gold jewelry worth 42,000 yuan in the store and fled. At that time, the staff of the gold shop immediately called the police and pursued it. The male thief was intercepted with the help of passers-by.

2019-12-19: A male staff member of a convenience store on 3 Anbang Road, Tai Po. He was frightened by a man with a kitchen knife and robbed 5,500 yuan and five packs of cigarettes, worth about 270 yuan.

2019-12-17: On the ground floor of 25-31 Ap Lei Chau Street, Ap Lei Chau, Hong Kong Island, an old man about 80 years old stole two rows of beer in the refrigerator, valued at about 100 yuan, and the old man went to the cashier for a few inches. The fruit knife he claimed left after the robbery.

2019-12-13: A watch shop at 123 Huayuan Street in Mong Kok was robbed by four thieves who entered the watch shop with swords and hammers. After preliminary counting, the watch shop was robbed of about two million yuan in cash and about 70 watches were robbed.

2019-12-02: A jewellery shop on the ground floor of 282 Castle Peak Road, Changsha Bay. Two thieves with hammers got out of the car and quickly smashed the window display cabinet. The thief snatched a batch of gold items worth about 3 million yuan. Jump back to the private car and escape.

2019-12-01: A jewellery gold shop is off at 245 To Kwa Wan Road. Four thieves held watermelon knife fingers to scare the staff, smashed the window glass with a hammer and stole about two million yuan of gold.

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