Hong Kong police "Operation谋攻" arrests 682 people, dismantles virtual currency money laundering gang with HKD 44 million seized

PANews February 4th News, according to Hong Kong 01, Hong Kong police disclosed that over the past three weeks, they launched a city-wide law enforcement operation codenamed “Mou Gong” targeting scams, cybercrimes, money laundering, and other offenses. A total of 682 people were arrested for conspiracy to commit fraud, obtaining property through deception, and money laundering, involving 580 cases of scams and technology crimes with a total amount of HKD 620 million. Among these, during an operation codenamed “Zhan Wang” by the Hong Kong Police Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau, a local online romance scam group was dismantled, along with a group involved in laundering money through virtual currencies. Over the past 16 months, this group defrauded 314 victims for a total of HKD 44 million, with an average of about HKD 150,000 per case.