A 20-year-old international student is suspected of owing gambling debts and desperate. He is suspected of writing and directing a "kidnapping case" and defrauding his family with a ransom of 300,000. In order to be more realistic, he staged a "bitter scheme" and transmitted multiple clips of him being beaten by a kidnapper. On Christmas Eve (24th), the police mobilized to rescue "Rosshen", arrested two "kidnappings" in Kowloon City, rescued Rosshen safely, and after an in-depth investigation revealed a rebellious scam, and arrested him on suspicion of "wasting police force." The two same parties were detained for investigation on suspicion of "illegal imprisonment."
It is understood that the protagonist in the case, whose surname is Mai, is a 20-year-old student from Australia. He returned to Hong Kong earlier and lived with his family in the Kowloon City District. The kidnappers have known since childhood and belonged to old friends and buddies. Some people owed gambling debts and collaborated with buddies to interpret the kidnapping case. They even instructed them to beat him and film them, forcing his family to pay a ransom of 300,000 yuan.
On the day of the incident, the kidnappers met the victim’s mother to pay the ransom in Kowloon City District. The police granted the opportunity to secretly send personnel to protect the victim’s mother. They took the opportunity to take the opportunity to rescue the meat ginseng and arrest the two kidnappers on Pin Lan Street and Lu Ming Road respectively.
Suspected of conspiring with an old friend to perform a kidnapping case, demand ransom from his family and arrested
In the afternoon of the day before the incident (24th), a woman reported that she had received a phone call claiming that her son had been kidnapped and demanded a ransom of 300,000 yuan. Later, she received multiple episodes of her son being attacked.
Officers from the Regional Crime Squad of West Kowloon took over the investigation and launched a rescue operation. On the same day, the 20-year-old man named Mai was taken hostage in Kowloon City. He suffered minor injuries.
The police arrested two men surnamed Yu and 23-year-old Kong, respectively, on suspicion of "illegal imprisonment."
After further investigation, the police suspected that someone had falsely reported kidnapping to their family members due to debt problems in order to defraud money.
The 20-year-old man surnamed Mai was arrested on suspicion of "wasting police force" in Kowloon City yesterday.
In addition, when the police tried to stop a private car involved in the case during the operation, the private car drove away at high speed, violated the traffic light several times, and ran into another vehicle at the junction of Waterloo Road and Boundary Street. The case Listed as "crazy driving", no one has been arrested yet.
All the arrested persons are now being detained for investigation.
The operation is still in progress, and the police do not rule out more arrests.
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