China Daily (Hong Kong)

Gang posed as police, prostitute­s

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A gang in Guangzhou, who impersonat­ed police officers so that they could trick senior citizens into thinking they were being fined for visiting prostitute­s, has been busted. Police were alerted to the gang’s activities after a retiree, surnamed Chen, was defrauded of 150,000 yuan ($22,230) earlier this year. Chen told police he had met a middle-aged woman while out shopping, who had invited him to her house. She offered to have sex with him, but the pair were inter- A onetime restaurant employee in Yangzhong has been detained on suspicion of stealing from his former employer. Surveillan­ce footage shows the man, surnamed Yu, squeezing through a 10-centimeter gap between two doors to get into the closed hotpot restaurant at night. Police said Yu has broken into the business on eight separate occasions using this method, stealing more than

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