Crime | Man takes revenge by faking reports of terrorist attacks to police

A  45-year-old male from Bangladesh has been arrested for faking reports to the police, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said at a press conference yesterday.

The suspect, known as Gaurab, claims to be an engineer at a telecommunication engineering company.

According to the police, several airlines and hotels in Macau reported receiving emails informing them of an impending terrorist threat in Macau in August and October last year.

The emails were all sent from the same email account, according to the PJ.

Those emails claimed that three male Filipinos said to be involved in drug and criminal activities were planning a terrorist attack on Macau.

The PJ, after receiving the reports, initiated investigations. Soon after, the three men were found and taken for interrogation.

During the investigations, the PJ found no signs of the men attempting to organize a terror attack.

The PJ subsequently identified Gaurab as the email sender, and he was arrested by the police at the Macau International Airport when he tried to enter the territory last Saturday. He admitted to knowing all three men and to setting them up. .

He later confessed to making false accusations about the three men to draw the attention of the local police authority and trigger investigations against them.

The identities of the three men were not disclosed by the PJ. Moreover, the reasons that motivated Gaurab’s actions are still under investigation.

In a non-related case, a local minor was found to have lit a fire for fun, the PJ reported at yesterday’s conference.

Last Thursday evening, the police received reports of an iron bottle that had been set on fire. Police began investigating residents who lived around the building.

A minor who lived on the building admitted to police that he was the one to trigger the alarm.

The underage resident said that he had set on fire plastic tape surrounding an iron bottle. Upon doing this, he returned home.

The person who later reported the incident to police turned out to be the minor’s mother, who was not told of the event by the child because he was scared to do so.

HK man arrested after escaping the territory

A Hong Kong male (43), surnamed Leong, was arrested last Saturday when entering Macau, the police reported yesterday. Leong was involved in a drug manufacturing case in Macau back in July 2011. That year, local police uncovered a drug factory based in Macau, resulting in the detention of three people. At the time, police identified Leong, based on his previous employment by the factory ringleader. Leong immediately fled Macau and remains in Hong Kong. Police are still investigating his involvement in the drug case, but so far Leong has refused to answer any questions.