Hong Kong police arrest 3 over abduction of woman in busy shopping district with officers linking case to financial dispute
- Police say one of the three suspects arrested had a financial dispute with the victim over HK$100,000
- Officers later found woman, uninjured, in car outside Heng Yuet House at Heng On Estate in Ma On Shan, after she was taken by two men in Tsim Sha Tsui
Hong Kong police have arrested three people in connection with the abduction of a woman in a busy shopping district, with investigators linking the case to a financial dispute over HK$100,000.
Police said on Tuesday that they received a report at noon the previous day that two men wearing black outfits, caps and masks had attacked and shoved a 47-year-old woman into a black vehicle along the junction of Ichang Street and Hankow Road in Tsim Sha Tsui.
Officers later found the woman unharmed at about 6pm on Monday in a grey car outside Heng Yuet House at Heng On Estate in Ma On Shan, about 21km (13 miles) from the scene of the snatching.
Inspector Chan Kwan-to of Yau Tsim district crime squad said the grey car was the second one involved in the case.
He said the three suspects and the jobless victim knew each other, and one of the trio had a financial dispute with the woman involving about HK$100,000.
The suspects were detained for investigation and police did not rule out further arrests, he added.
“Police will not tolerate such an illegal act in broad daylight in a busy district,” he said.
