Hong Kong man, 29, lured to South-East Asian ‘scam farm’ returns home


A Hongkonger who was lured to South-East Asia and held captive at a “scam farm” in Myanmar since October returned to the city on Monday, as the government revealed that a security official would remain in Bangkok to continue efforts to rescue 10 other residents stranded in similar fraud centres in the region.

The 29-year-old man was taken to the airport’s police station at about 12.30am on Tuesday soon after he returned to Hong Kong on a flight from Bangkok with members of a designated task force from the Security Bureau.

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