23-08-2017, 02:12 PM
300 victims of ‘living Buddha’ scam seek help from Hong Kong police after HK$80 million in losses
Group accuses a man on the run for cheating them with fake products and blessings, among other crimes
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 22 August, 2017, 5:18pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 22 August, 2017, 10:58pm
Some 300 people from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan sought police help on Tuesday after they were cheated in an HK$80 million scam by a Hongkonger who claimed to be a “living Buddha with healing and blessing powers”.
The group, representing only about half of the total number of victims, gathered at the police headquarters in Wan Chai, holding banners and cardboard signs accusing a man called “Chen Baosheng” of being a “fake Buddhist” who used sales tactics such as pyramid schemes to “cheat people all over China for 13 years”.
“They claimed that the 62-year-old man held identity documents from both Hong Kong and Taiwan, with some calling him ‘Chan Po-sang’ in Cantonese,” a police spokesman told the Post.
More details in http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-c...ong-police
Group accuses a man on the run for cheating them with fake products and blessings, among other crimes
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 22 August, 2017, 5:18pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 22 August, 2017, 10:58pm
Some 300 people from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan sought police help on Tuesday after they were cheated in an HK$80 million scam by a Hongkonger who claimed to be a “living Buddha with healing and blessing powers”.
The group, representing only about half of the total number of victims, gathered at the police headquarters in Wan Chai, holding banners and cardboard signs accusing a man called “Chen Baosheng” of being a “fake Buddhist” who used sales tactics such as pyramid schemes to “cheat people all over China for 13 years”.
“They claimed that the 62-year-old man held identity documents from both Hong Kong and Taiwan, with some calling him ‘Chan Po-sang’ in Cantonese,” a police spokesman told the Post.
More details in http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-c...ong-police