A suspected asylum seeker from Bangladesh who was paid HK$50 a day touting counterfeit watches in Tsim Sha Tsui was arrested when he went to pick up a fake watch from a car yesterday.
Officers seized about 250 counterfeit watches bearing famous brands such as Rolex, Cartier, Gucci and Longines from the car. The haul is worth about HK$100,000.
Police said the fake watches were sold for between HK$800 and HK$3,000 each to tourists.
Acting on a tip-off, officers laid an ambush in a car park in the basement of a Peking Road office block in the morning. The arrest was made around midday when the man, 35, got into a car to collect a watch.
'Initial investigation showed that the man was recruited to work as a tout and he went to the car park to pick up the fake for a buyer,' Sergeant Chu Chi-kong said.
He said the suspect, who was paid HK$50 a day, had been touting counterfeits in the area for about a week.
