Seven people were apprehended on Friday by the customs officers in Hong Kong on the suspicion of being involved in the money laundering that is up to about HK$14 billion.
The reports by the officers said that money is being transferred to Hong Kong to pay for goods such as precious stones and electronic products using a business platform professed to be an international company by the syndicate.
The head of customs’ financial investigation bureau, Suzette Ip said that it was believed that the HK$2.9 billion of the funds were traced to a fraud executed in India.
“The Indian authorities exchanged intelligence with us and we found that certain bank transactions were actually connected with two companies that have been taken down by the Indian authorities, being suspected of laundering crime proceeds in relation to an online mobile application scam,” Ip said.
It was reported by the Customs officers that the seven suspects are aged between 23 and 74 and that their assets worth around HK$165 million have been frozen as part of the investigation.
香港海關稱七人因涉嫌洗錢140億港元被捕
週五，香港海關人員逮捕了七人，涉嫌洗錢，金額高達約 140 億港元。
官員的報告稱，該集團正在利用一個自稱是國際企業的商業平台，將資金轉移到香港，用於支付寶石和電子產品等商品。
海關金融調查局局長葉蘇澤特表示，據信這29億港元的資金是在印度實施的詐欺行為。
葉說：“印度當局與我們交換了情報，我們發現某些銀行交易實際上與印度當局查獲的兩家公司有關，這些公司涉嫌洗錢與在線移動應用程序詐騙有關的犯罪收益。”
據海關人員通報，七名嫌犯年齡介乎23歲至74歲，其資產約1.65億港元已被凍結。
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