Bounty of HK$10m still to be collected

Rewards amounting to nearly HK$10 million, put up by police as early as 1997, remain on offer with more than 20 culprits still on the run. The police website lists 25 rewards amounting to HK$9.95 million for killers, robbers and acid throwers.

The highest reward, HK$2.5 million, is being offered for information leading to the arrest of robbers and the recovery of HK$11.7 million in cash and valuables stolen from three safes in the office of Feoso Oil in Cheung Sha Wan last year.

The stolen property includes dozens of watches, about 200 Canadian maple leaf gold coins and jewellery.

The second-largest reward, HK$800,000, is for information leading to the arrests of four Wo Shing Wo triad members wanted over the death of Lee Tai-lung, head of the Tsim Sha Tsui faction of the Sun Yee On triad.

Lee, 41, was rammed by a car outside the Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui in August 2009 before being hacked to death.

The third biggest reward is H$500,000 for the recovery of a 16.83-carat emerald ring worth HK$12.2 million that vanished in seven minutes after being left in a washroom at the Four Seasons Hotel in Central in September 2011. It is owned by Caroline Scheufele, co-president of the Swiss luxury watch and jewellery company Chopard.