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    Daylight Robbery of $4M - Manhunt on....

    A citywide manhunt for four non-Chinese robbers was under way after a mainland visitor was slashed in the leg and robbed of a rucksack and a luggage packed with about HK$4 million in foreign currencies in a hold-up at a busy footbridge in Hong Kong on Friday morning.

    The daring daylight robbery took place on the Chi Cheong Road footbridge at about 8.30am, shortly after the mainland man in his 40s got off at Sheung Shui MTR station following his arrival from Shenzhen by train. The bridge is only about one to two minutes’ walk from the station.
    “We were told the backpack and suitcase carried more than US$400,000 (HK$3.1 million) and about 80,000 euros (HK$649,000) in total,” he said.
    Thought it was illegal to carry so money cash out of China...

    Manhunt in Hong Kong for four suspects after mainland visitor slashed in the leg in HK$4 million daylight robbery | South China Morning Post

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    Sounds like they knew he was carrying that much cash...


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    Yep - certainly not a random event.


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    Thank goodness they were "non Chinese"... gotta love the SCMP


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    Quote Originally Posted by jwyl:
    Thank goodness they were "non Chinese"... gotta love the SCMP
    I had the same thought/reaction as you when I first read it. But after reading your post and thinking a little further, I suppose they may have been given information that the suspects looked, i.e. European descent, South East Asian, insert any that would not look 'Chinese' but was somewhat inconclusive so the safest extra information they could give is "non Chinese"?

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    That's a lots of money to carry around like this. I think the robbers were informed before about this sum of money. Well, I hope the victim didn't lost his life due to a heart attack.


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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    Thought it was illegal to carry so money cash out of China...
    It totally is, it was actually their duty to take it!
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    He must have been on his way to the laundry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by emx:
    He must have been on his way to the laundry.
    To the LV store.

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    Inside job outsourced to cheap labour LOL

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