9 arrested in connection with money-laundering crime group
發佈日期: 2025-08-10 23:50
TVB News
The police cracked down on a suspected fraud and money laundering criminal group, which allegedly recruited mainlanders to open bank accounts in Hong Kong to launder funds.Nine people were arrested.
In the operation, police confiscated cash, more than 40 mobile phones and laptops.
Multiple online banking apps were installed in the mobile devices with login details listed on the back of each phone.
Police say the mainlanders recruited were paid 500 to 1,000 dollars each for lending their bank accounts to the group. The accounts were then used to launder criminal proceeds.
Police raided two operation centres located in a Kwai Chung industrial building and a hostel in Mong Kok on Saturday.
Five men and four women, aged 24 to 64, were arrested on Saturday afternoon, six of whom were holding two-way permits.
Some of them will be charged with conspiracy to defraud and will appear at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts on Monday.
