Crime Hong Kong police officer arrested for stealing over HKD1.07m

A Hong Kong police officer who allegedly fled to Macau after having stolen approximately one million Hong Kong dollars in bail money, was arrested while trying to return to Hong Kong on Monday, according to a report by South China Morning Post.
The 43-year-old man, surnamed Cheung, was intercepted by immigration officers at the Shenzhen Bay border checkpoint. Cheung had reportedly spent all the stolen money on gambling in Macau, before returning to the city.
On May 2, Cheung, in command of the safe at the Arsenal Street station’s report room, was reported to the police by his colleagues. They were informed that HKD1.07 million in bail money had disappeared after Cheung unexpectedly left his duty on that same day. Cheung was immediately suspected of having left the city to go to Macau, before moving on to mainland China.
An initial investigation showed that Cheung was heavily in debt but he had not declared it as unmanageable to the force as per regulation.
Cheung joined the Hong Kong police force in 1992 and was promoted to officer in command last June. He was living with his 21-year-old daughter and his wife in a police quarter before his disappearance.
Cheung’s case marks one of the most serious money stealing cases in Hong Kong in recent years. In 2006, an officer at the Mong Kok Police Station took more than HK430,000 in bail money and was later sentenced to jail for 18 months.