{"id":9890,"date":"2021-01-18T16:52:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118249\/gang-snatches-hk35-million-hong-kong-cryptocurrency"},"modified":"2021-01-18T16:52:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:52:30","slug":"gang-snatches-hk3-5-million-from-hong-kong-cryptocurrency-trader-at-knifepoint-after-she-transfers-digital-tokens-to-buyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/gang-snatches-hk3-5-million-from-hong-kong-cryptocurrency-trader-at-knifepoint-after-she-transfers-digital-tokens-to-buyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang snatches HK$3.5 million from Hong Kong cryptocurrency trader at knifepoint after she transfers digital tokens to \u2018buyer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police are hunting for a gang of thieves who lured a female cryptocurrency trader to an office for a deal and robbed her of HK$3.5 million in cash at knifepoint on Monday afternoon.The robbery \u2013 the second such hold-up in two weeks \u2013 took place at the Ricky Centre on Chong Yip Street in Kwun Tong around 2.30pm, after the woman met a man posing as a buyer.She had recently sold the man digital money in three transactions, each involving HK$600,000 to HK$700,000, according to police\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\/3118249\/gang-snatches-hk35-million-hong-kong-cryptocurrency\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong police are hunting for a gang of thieves who lured a female cryptocurrency trader to an office for a deal and robbed her of HK$3.5 million in cash at knifepoint on Monday afternoon.The robbery \u2013 the second such hold-up in two weeks \u2013 took pla&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":773,"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\/9890"}],"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\/773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9907,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions\/9907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}