A businesswoman was tied up and photographed topless after being lured to a bogus meeting by a former colleague, a court heard yesterday.
The victim, a compact disc manufacturer, told the District Court how a former salesman from her company telephoned her to say he had found her a client.
Prosecutor Selwyn So Kai-ming said the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, arranged a meeting two days after receiving the call from the man, surnamed Chow, on September 1 last year.
When the woman met Chow in Tsim Sha Tsui that evening, she was asked to get in his car. Two other unknown men also later got in the car and sat next to her.
Chow told the victim the client was in Sha Tin and began driving towards Tai Po. However, on the way, one of the two men grabbed and tied the woman's hands, the court heard.
The men later took from the victim's handbag credit cards, which Chow later used to withdraw a total of $35,000 from her bank accounts.