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Crime in Hong Kongi

Hong Kong crime news, including murder cases, triads, the hunt for serial killers, court cases and trials, shootings, burglary, armed robbery and corruption.

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As the latest victim – Hong Kong’s Consumer Council – has warned, no system is apparently ‘bulletproof’ when it comes to cyberattacks, but vigilance is key.

  • Top offence of young offenders shifted over the past two years from theft to criminal damage to deception
  • Children as young as 13 have been targeted on social media for ‘debt collection jobs’ that lead to crime
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Immigration Department busts crime group operating cleaning company offering service of staff without work visas to client network of about 50 restaurants.

Development Bureau extends ban on Aggressive Construction Company until end of 2024, after 56-year-old electrician falls to his death at site in Tsim Sha Tsui.

In the past two weeks, 11 Hongkongers reported that virtual assets with an estimated value of HK$3.5 million had been stolen from their Binance accounts, police say.

While identity of suspect not known, individual known as Henry Choi, or ‘Tung Gei’ says on Instagram he was returning to city ‘to explain the truth to the public’ and help police with investigation.

A group of 10 cryptocurrency industry executives, including Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu, has published a public letter endorsing the government’s commitment to Web3.

Officers from commercial crime bureau arrest 31-year-old man, one of seven suspects taken into custody on Thursday in connection with city’s biggest case of alleged financial fraud.

Police log 13 cases in-flight theft involving the loss of cash and credit cards in the first nine months of year, after just two incidents in 2022, one in 2021 and five in 2020.

Source says twins attend special care classes and fight broke out after they refused to go to school, with mother believed to have hurt herself and sons with sharp object.