Cross-regional police cooperation to crack down on scams
發佈日期: 2025-06-03 19:32
TVB News
Last month, Hong Kong police joined forces with six countries and regions to crack down on cross-boundary scam cases.
More than 1,800 people have been arrested with potential crime proceeds of over 150 million dollars intercepted.
In October last year, the Hong Kong Police Force and 10 overseas law enforcement agencies including Macao, Singapore, Thailand and South Korea formed a platform to combat cross-boundary scam cases.
The first joint operations were launched by authorities in seven such places on April 28th.
They busted more than 9,200 cases of scams, involving online shopping, job advertising and investment opportunities.
Nearly 3,000 police officers were deployed. Authorities arrested 1,858 suspects aged between 14 and 81. They also intercepted potential crime proceeds totalling 157 million Hong Kong dollars.
The Singapore police force said earlier a fraudster posed as a company CEO, using the "face-swapping" technology and tricking the firm's CFO into transferring 500,000 U.S. dollars to his bank account in Hong Kong.
That's equivalent to about 4 million Hong Kong dollars. Singapore police immediately alerted their Hong Kong counterpart and successfully intercepted all the funds.
AILEEN YAP, Asst. Commissioner of Police, Anti-Scam Command, Singpaore Police Force: If we have money going to another country or another jurisdiction, usually we go through Interpol. The challenge that we face is that sometimes, due to time difference, the information is passed on at a later stage. This is a direct contact, instead of going though an intermediary, we go directly to the jurisdiction.
The Commercial Crime Bureau of the Hong Kong police, meanwhile, noted that shared intelligence can facilitate investigations involving fake customer services on messaging platforms as well.
They said the regions will work together to help resolve cases where victims are lured into going to Thailand or Myanmar in job scams.
