Five arrested in Hong Kong over South-east Asia job scams

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Police arrested three men and two women suspected of tricking Hong Kongers into accepting 'highly unrealistic' job offers abroad. Read more at straitstimes.com.

HONG KONG - Five Hong Kongers have been arrested for allegedly setting up job scams in which victims were lured to South-east Asia and then held against their will, police announced on Sunday .

Almost all of the 36 requests for police help were related to job scams, according to Senior Superintendent Tony Ho of the organised crime and triad bureau. Twenty-two victims are still believed to be ensnared in Cambodia and Myanmar, and nine among them have not contacted their families or the Hong Kong police, he added.

Politicians from Hong Kong's DAB party told reporters on Sunday that a victim's family sought help from them as the Hong Konger had been trapped for about a month in a human trafficking hotspot in Myanmar's Kayin State.

 

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