Crime | Women falsify police report after RMB500,000 loss to gambling

The Judiciary Police (PJ) has charged two mainland women with filing a false police report, the police department said yesterday during the joint police press conference.
The two suspects, Wang, who is unemployed, and Jiang, who is a self-claimed student, are in their 20s.
Police information shows that in October, the two met a mainland man, surnamed Xia, in Shenzhen.
Wang and Jiang invested 300,000 yuan and 200,000 yuan, respectively, to Xia so that he could gamble in Macau on their behalf.
On November 5, Wang and Jiang travelled to Macau to meet the two victims in this case, both surnamed Meng, who are mainland residents. The four met in a hotel room at a casino located in Cotai.
On November 11, after meeting with the two victims, Wang and Jiang filed a police report claiming that both Mengs were fraudsters.
The two women told police that, in October, Xia had tricked them into investing a total of half million yuan into Macau’s casino projects. They also accused the two victims of signing an agreement regarding the made-up investment fraud.
However, during interrogation, police officers learned, from Wang and Jiang’s WeChat conversation records, that the half million Chinese yuan was invested to trustee Xia to find people to gamble in Macau in hopes of profiting.
On November 13, PJ forwarded the two to the prosecution authority.
In addition to this case, PJ also reported four fraud cases involving counterfeit notes. Across the four cases, PJ apprehended four suspects, all mainlanders, who claimed they were paid to deliver fake notes to the victims.
In total, five victims reported a total loss of approximately HKD500,000.