{"id":8912,"date":"2021-01-15T13:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T13:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3117968\/four-hong-kong-police-constables-who-unknowingly-met"},"modified":"2021-01-15T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T13:44:28","slug":"four-hong-kong-police-constables-who-unknowingly-met-undercover-agent-over-raid-tip-off-accused-of-colluding-with-triad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/four-hong-kong-police-constables-who-unknowingly-met-undercover-agent-over-raid-tip-off-accused-of-colluding-with-triad\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Hong Kong police constables who unknowingly met undercover agent over raid tip-off accused of colluding with triad"},"content":{"rendered":"Four Hong Kong policemen allegedly colluded with triad members and tipped them off about a coming raid on an illegal gambling den, while also unknowingly meeting an undercover officer over the plot, the court heard on Friday.The constables of the organised crime and triad bureau, who have been suspended from duty, faced a joint charge, alongside an unemployed man, of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, an offence punishable by seven years\u2019 imprisonment at the District Court.The four\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3117968\/four-hong-kong-police-constables-who-unknowingly-met\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Hong Kong policemen allegedly colluded with triad members and tipped them off about a coming raid on an illegal gambling den, while also unknowingly meeting an undercover officer over the plot, the court heard on Friday.The constables of the organ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8913,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912\/revisions\/8913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}