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Written by: Sin Bo Li
2021-05-31 07:00
Last update date: 2021-05-31 07:00
The 90-year-old Mrs. Hu, who lives in a mansion on Binji Road on the Peak, fell into a phone scam and was successfully defrauded by a "fake agent" of over 280 million Hong Kong dollars. The deception has not been recovered yet.
"Hong Kong 01" tracked down and found that the scam involved two "shell companies" registered in Hong Kong. The directors were men holding Chinese passports or Mainland ID cards. They used the company account of Standard Chartered Bank to receive remittances from Mrs. Hu.
The reporter searched for the address of the company involved, but all were secretarial companies.
A staff member revealed that the police had come to investigate, but said frankly that they "would not help me." They also did not know where the mainland directors involved in the fraud were going, and even said that the company would no longer pick up mainland customers.
"Hong Kong 01" earlier exclusively revealed that between August last year and January this year, Mrs. Hu remitted 280 million Hong Kong dollars to three Standard Chartered Bank accounts, which was more than the 250 million Hong Kong dollars originally announced by the police.
It is understood that Mrs. Hu deposited HK$36 million plus US$32 million.
Unknown fraud collection business for registered companies in Hong Kong and Hong Kong
The reporter found after investigation that the fraudulent collection of 280 million yuan involved three corporate accounts of Standard Chartered Bank and two "shelf companies" registered in Hong Kong.
The two "shelf companies" are "Zhishang Trading Co., Ltd." and "E Anda Trading Co., Ltd.". However, the business of the two companies is unknown, and the office address is also a secretarial company and has no actual business address.
The directors of the two companies that receive remittances are all mainlanders without a practical address
Checking the company registry information, the two companies "Zhishang" and "E Anda" each have only one male director, registered with a Chinese passport or a Mainland ID card respectively.
The director of "Zhishang" is Zhang Xsheng, who reportedly lives in Huludao, Liaoning; the director of "E Anda" is Liang Xcheng, who reportedly lives in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province.
The reporter visited the address of the "Zhishang" company. The office is a shared office in a commercial building in Jordan, named "Litian Century Accounting Services Co., Ltd.".
"Litian Century" was once appointed by "Zhishang" as the secretary, but "Litian Century" has resigned as secretary since December last year. "Zhishang" has not hired a new secretary company so far.
On the day when the reporter shot the door, "Litian Century" was unmanned, and another company employee in the shared office answered the door.
(Photo by Hong Kong 01 reporter)
Secretarial company staff: no longer pick up mainland customers
The staff of "Litian Century" revealed that the police had visited Mrs. Hu's fraud case to investigate, but frankly said that there was not much information at hand, and had long since resigned as the company secretary of "Zhishang", "I can't help you."
The staff of "Litian Century" explained that the company has always "accepted mainland customers." He also pointed out that mainland customers can still apply for company secretarial services without visiting the office. Therefore, the company does not know the customer details.
The staff member also pointed out that the secretarial company received letters from lawyers last year, all of which were sent to different mainland companies, and therefore felt "weird". Therefore, he resigned as the company secretaries of all mainland companies at that time and has not received mainland clients anymore.
Another company involved, "E Anda", had appointed "Golden Port Bridge International Business Consulting Co., Ltd." as its secretary, but in November last year it switched to "Hai Ming International Enterprise Secretarial Services Co., Ltd.". It was the period when Mrs. Hu was defrauded of sending money.
The staff of "Golden Port Bridge International" stated that the "big boss" of the secretarial company is a mainlander and has a branch in Shenzhen. The main business is to open a company for mainlanders in Hong Kong. "The ratio is 8 to 2 and 80% is for mainlanders to open companies."
Another secretary company employee: Every year the police come to the door
The staff member said that mainland clients do not open companies in Hong Kong. They only need to mail documents and identity certificates, and the secretarial company will handle the formalities for them.
However, the staff admitted that occasionally the police came to the house, saying that the secretarial company had a client suspected of committing a crime, and asked the company to provide information to assist in the investigation, "probably once or twice a year."
However, when asked about "E Anda", the secretary company staff stated that there was no record in the system, and failed to explain why he resigned as the "E Anda" company secretary, and even pointed out that the police never came to the door and asked reporters to inquire about the mainland branch.
However, the reporter called the mainland branch of "Golden Port Bridge International," but no reply was received.
The secretarial company "Hai Ming International" still appointed by "E Anda" is located in an industrial building in San Po Kong.
The reporter came to the door and found that there was no one working and there was a phone number outside the door. After calling, the company staff admitted to performing company secretarial services for "E Anda", but refused to disclose further details, such as director information, contact information, whereabouts, etc.
An Zijie was a Hong Kong affairs consultant, deputy director of the Basic Law Drafting Committee, and deputy director of the SAR Preliminary Committee and the Preparatory Committee. In 1993, he served as the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He died in 2000.
(China Government Network)
In this sensational Hong Kong billion-dollar electrical fraud case, the victim, Mrs. Hu, is now 90 years old. Her husband made a fortune in his early years, but died 30 years ago, leaving behind shares of many companies, a large house on Binji Road on the top of the mountain, Famous cars and large amounts of cash.
His husband, Mr. Hu, had a large share of shares in a listed company in Hong Kong in the 1970s and was one of the important shareholders. The directors of the same period included the late national leader, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, An Zijie, and a "doll face king". Zhou Wenxuan.
Mr. Hu's business once included real estate, shipping, chemicals, etc.
When the police responded to the enquiry, they did not explain whether they had investigated the above-mentioned secretarial company. They only stated that a 19-year-old man named Huang was arrested in March this year for "acquiring property by deception." He is now on bail pending investigation.
The police continued to point out that the case is now being followed up by the Regional Crime Squad of East Kowloon, which is still under investigation and it is not ruled out that more people have been arrested.
It is reported that the arrested man was a first-year male student of PolyU, who claimed to have been a victim, and was later used by fraudsters to become "secret agents."
The police arrested a 19-year-old PolyU first-year male student who pretended to be a "secret agent" and claimed that he had been a victim of electronic fraud.
(Photo/Photo by Yang Jialang)
The facts of the case pointed out that in August last year, Mrs. Hu received a call from a mainland official claiming that someone had stolen her identity, so she had to check her bank account and request her to transfer the deposit to the designated account, claiming that it would be returned in May this year.
Later, scammers pretended to be "secret agents" and "mainland police" and went to Mrs. Hu's villa to provide a dedicated phone for contact.
One of the scammers even asked Mrs. Hu and her personal driver to send money to Standard Chartered Bank together.
Mrs. Hu felt that the scammers could tell her personal information without any fraud, and transferred 280 million yuan in 11 times.
Finally, after lobbying by her daughter, Mrs. Hu finally called the police on March 2 this year, and then filed a complaint with the High Court, requesting the court to order Standard Chartered Bank to disclose the account information of the fraudsters.
Mrs. Hu filed a petition in the High Court, requesting Standard Chartered to disclose the account information of the fraudsters.
(Information Picture / Photo by Lu Yiming)
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