Hong Kong cash-grab frenzy: HK$7 million still missing as police arrest two cleaners
More than HK$7 million remains missing despite two more arrests over a cash-dash frenzy in Wan Chai on Christmas Eve, sparked by a security van spilling banknotes.
More than HK$7 million remains missing despite two more arrests over a cash-dash frenzy in Wan Chai on Christmas Eve, sparked when a security van spilled bundles of banknotes worth HK$52.5 million onto the road.
Two cleaners, aged 60 and 68, were arrested on suspicion of theft yesterday, bringing the total number of arrests related to the cash scramble to five. The cleaners were granted police bail before midnight, police said today, and are required to report back later next month.
Yesterday, another three people handed in HK$503,000 to police, leaving HK$7.157 million still unaccounted for.
The two cleaners, who are colleagues, were identified after police scoured video footage that captured people picking up the spilled money on Gloucester Road.
“An initial investigation showed the pair picked up thousands of dollars each and one of them allegedly used the money to buy a new mobile phone,” a police source said.
Officers picked them up at their office in the Allied Kajima Building on Gloucester Road around noon yesterday and seized the mobile phone. The building is less than 100 metres from the scene of the cash spill.