Zhuang Huimin, a female senior executive of the Hospital Authority who attended the epidemic press conference with Zhang Zhujun, and her husband, who is also a doctor, were accused of stealing sea urchin, Xiaoyu watermelon and other food worth more than 1,600 yuan in a supermarket in Huangpu.
The two denied the crime of theft, and the case started today (6th) in the Kowloon City Court.
The plainclothes security guard of the supermarket stated that he saw many goods on the trolleys of the two defendants, including expensive food, but when they used the self-service payment machine, some of the goods were put into the bag without being scanned by the barcode reader.
Involved in the theft of 10 items worth 1632 yuan
The two defendants: Zhao Mingyu (47 years old) and Zhuang Huimin (48 years old), both reported to be doctors.
They were accused of stealing a watermelon, a honeydew melon, two packs of pudding, two packs of Blueberries, two packs of sashimi, one pack of sushi and one pack of chicken, the total value is 1632.8 yuan.
Both defendants are registered medical practitioners.
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Dispute if you forgot to scan the item
The two were represented by Senior Counsel Luo Yinggan and Barrister Peter Pooh respectively.
Both the prosecution and the defense admitted the fact that the two defendants purchased a total of 23 items at the above address that day, but did not include the unpaid items involved in the case.
The eldest daughter of the two called her parents 6 times that night to no avail, and finally reported to the police that her parents had lost contact, and was later informed by the police that her parents were processing documents at the police station.
The prosecution revealed that the two defendants will dispute the admissibility of the videotaped meeting and will testify in court.
The defense confirmed that it did not dispute that some of the items had not been scanned, but disputed the intent of this move, that the two men either forgot to scan the items.
Buy expensive items to attract the attention of security guards
The prosecution summoned AEON plainclothes security guard Chen Xingju. He pointed out that there were 34 self-service payment machines in the Whampoa store involved in the case. After the customer scanned the barcode of the product, the self-service payment machine would make a "dong" sound, the screen would flash once, and the name of the product would be displayed.
Chen Xu said that at 3:40 pm that day, he was patrolling the self-service payment area and saw the two defendants pushing trolleys to the No. 17 payment machine to pay.
Chen saw that the trolleys of the two had a lot of goods, including expensive ones, so he began to observe them. He explained that if customers use the self-service payment machine to buy a large amount of goods, "something will happen easily", so he then Will pay attention to the two defendants.
Aeon plainclothes security guard Chen Xingju said that he paid special attention to the two defendants because they bought a large amount of goods, including expensive food.
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When the two defendants were stopped, they both claimed to have given money
According to Chen's observation, when the two paid, some of the goods were put into bags without "passing through the machine (scanned by a barcode reader)", including: a box of sea urchins, a watermelon and a honeydew melon.
Chen suspected that the two were stealing, so after Zhao paid, he followed them to the parking lot on the B2 floor, identified himself to them, and asked, "Did the goods you carry have not been paid?" The two replied: " There is money."
Some of the goods are not scanned in the video
Afterwards, Chen took the two of them back to the AEON security room, and compared the goods in their hands with the receipts provided by Zhao, and found that there were 10 goods that had not been paid for.
He printed out these unpaid items and handed them over to the two for confirmation, and then explained the incident to the store manager and called the police.
CCTV clips were played in the court. It can be seen that the two moved the goods on the trolley to the payment machine counter one by one. Zhao put the goods on the barcode reader to scan, and Zhuang put the goods in the bag, but some of the goods were not scanned. .
Case No.: KCCC1147/2022
Hospital Authority female senior and male doctor involved in Whampoa AEON theft trial in December The defense will hear the medical expert Hospital Authority senior Zhuang Huimin and the male doctor involved in the supermarket theft case adjourned to discuss other handling methods Supermarket theft including sashimi and more than 1,600 yuan of food