Burst
Written by: Deng Haixing
2020-04-04 02:42
Last update date: 2020-04-04 03:14Mong Kok suspected a theft in a money-changer. On Friday (3rd), a man accompanied an intermediary introduced by a friend to a money changer in Portland Street and remitted 10 million yuan in cash to Macau. However, the store said that the exchange amount was too large, and the two sides decided to return 1 million yuan after discussion. The confusing intermediary suspected that when the victim left for a moment, he requested a refund of 2 million yuan from the store. He successfully took the money and stole 1 million yuan of the cash. The whole journey only took about 3 minutes. The police are following the incident.
The spot is a money-changing shop at No.163-173 Portland Street. According to the news, the male principal had introduced a remittance intermediary through the introduction of a friend earlier. He took 10 million cash with him yesterday and went to the site to find a change shop, intending to remit all money to a Macau casino. However, the store said that the remittance amount was too large, and the maximum remittance was only 9 million yuan. After discussion, the two parties agreed to return 1 million yuan.
It is understood that the male owner left for a moment due to the incident. At this time, the intermediary secretly told the money exchange staff that the remittance amount of 9 million yuan was changed to 8 million yuan. After 1 million yuan, cash became the baggage, the confusing intermediary immediately left, the process only took about 3 minutes.
At about 7 o'clock last night, the male victim realized that the amount of money was insufficient and returned to the money-changing shop theory before revealing the incident and immediately called the police. The police arrived in the early hours of the investigation today (4th) and read through CCTV footage to understand that the case was temporarily classified as "theft".
Theft change shop
