Hong Kong police arrest 4 on suspicion of extorting money from restaurant owner, assaulting him after he refused to pay
- Men suspected to be triad members demanded victim pay protection fee while he was delivering lunchboxes to construction site in Kai Tak
- Officers investigating whether gang is trying to control sale of lunchboxes in the area
Hong Kong police have arrested four men on suspicion of extorting money from a restaurant owner and assaulting him after he refused to pay.
Three men, suspected to be members of a triad, approached the 44-year-old victim at about 11.30am on Monday and demanded he pay a protection fee while he was delivering lunchboxes to a construction site along Shing Fung Road, on the former Kai Tak airport runway.
“When he refused to pay, one of the gangsters assaulted him,” Senior Inspector Siu Lok-fai from the Kowloon East anti-triad squad said on Wednesday.
The three suspects fled before police arrived. The victim, who was injured in the mouth, was taken to United Christian Hospital for treatment.
Anti-triad officers arrested four men, aged 16 to 34, for blackmail and wounding in a series of raids in the Kowloon East region on Tuesday night.
