A Chinese domestic helper was arrested by Shanghai police for allegedly stealing 180,000 yuan (US$26,700) and two bottles of expensive liquor from her employer, according to a news website report.
The employer alerted the police after he spotted the cash and bottles of Moutai were missing from his apartment in New Jiangwan Town, Thepaper.cn reported.
The man said the cash had been kept in his room for several days as he prepared to lend the money to a friend.
Advertisement
Suspicion fell on the woman after her reflection was filmed in a window in the apartment by a surveillance camera on the residential complex’s gate. She was not due to work that day.
Advertisement
The woman, whose full name was not given, had been working part-time at the apartment for several years.
The maid filmed inside the residential complex. Photo: Handout
