A joint operation between police in Hong Kong and Macau has broken up a fraud syndicate suspected of swindling at least 17 women out of HK$21.5 million (US$2.8 million) in online romance scams.
The three-week operation, code-named “Guardway”, led to the arrest of one man and two women on suspicion of fraud and money laundering in Hong Kong, local police said on Wednesday.
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