================================================================================================ CASE 089 | 22 y/o man | June 14, 2021 | Hong Kong ================================================================================================ DATABASE RECORD id 89 date June 14, 2021 original_date June 14, 2021 year 2021 month 6 quarter 2021-Q2 victim 22 y/o man location Kwun Tong, Hong Kong country Hong Kong scenario Assault - Mugging description Trader temporarily blinded, HK$2 million stolen kidnappings 0 violence_torture 0 drugs_alcohol 0 weapons 1 theft 1 life_taken 0 money_wanted HK$2 million coin_type Cash reports SCMP notes they targeted the victim, sprayed his eyes with a pepper spray-like substance, and stole his bag with cash has_processed_date 1 created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45 (flag legend: 'kidnappings' is the DETENTION flag — 1 when the victim was held against their will at any point, tied, locked in, held at gunpoint or taken away; it is NOT the same as the 'Kidnapping' scenario, which means taken away and held. 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AI SUMMARY [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources] **Victim:** 22 y/o man **Attackers:** Unknown number of perpetrators **Attack Method:** Assault - Mugging **Violence Used:** Threats/intimidation **Crypto Stolen:** HK$2 million in Cash **Status:** Investigation ongoing LINKED SOURCES [url] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3137401/hong-kong-cryptocurrency-trader-targeted-hk2-million NOTES ON THIS FILE * matched to sheet row 90: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ARTICLE 1 Source SCMP URL https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3137401/hong-kong-cryptocurrency-trader-targeted-hk2-million Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 90, column "Articles" Length 2,135 chars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hong Kong cryptocurrency trader targeted in HK$2 million robbery, sparking citywide hunt for suspects Assailants sprayed unknown substance in 22-year-old victim’s eyes during attack in Kwun Tong, before grabbing bag full of cash Police say gang fled in white car which they later abandoned before running away on foot A citywide police hunt is under way for a gang of thieves after a cryptocurrency trader was sprayed in his eyes with an unknown substance and robbed of HK$2 million while he was on his way to buy bitcoin in Hong Kong on Tuesday. The suspects struck in broad daylight in the car park of Legend Tower on Shing Yip Street in Kwun Tong, shortly before 4.30pm. According to police, the 22-year-old victim was targeted after he parked his car. “While he was waiting for a lift, two men approached him and sprayed an unknown liquid into his eyes before snatching his green bag containing HK$2 million,” a police spokesman said, adding the victim said the substance had left him briefly unable to see. Officers said the two robbers fled in a white car driven by a third man, the three suspects later abandoned the car at the junction of Hoi Yuen Road and Shing Yip Street, and fled on foot heading towards Wai Yip Street. Officers combed the area, but no arrests were made. The spokesman said the victim did not request hospital treatment in the incident. In March, two money exchange company employees were lured to a Tin Hau shop and conned out of HK$3.85 million in a bogus bitcoin transaction. In January, two cryptocurrency traders were robbed of HK$6.5 million in total in two separate cases in a fortnight. On January 4, a gang of robbers lured a 37-year-old man to transfer bitcoin valued more than HK$3 million to them after he met them and made an online transaction in their car. They first paid the victim with cash but took it straight back after he transferred bitcoin to them. The victim was later kicked out of the vehicle on a hillside on Tai Tam Road in Chai Wan. Two weeks later, another gang lured a female trader to an office in Kwun Tong for a transaction and robbed her of HK$3.5 million at knifepoint. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [AUTO-TRIMMED — UNREVIEWED] !! Furniture was cut by a script keyed on this case's record, not by a person. !! It may still carry passages about OTHER cases from a round-up article. !! The full page extract is kept in staging/ if a cut needs revisiting. Source scmp.com URL https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3137401/hong-kong-cryptocurrency-trader-targeted-hk2-million Field url Retrieved 2026-09-05T12:53:43+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200) Language unknown Kept paragraphs headline [0] + 5-10 of 11 Length 1,182 chars Integrity sha256 b4318b0c6c5a32a7cbceee0f443e9641d4820fe1d5adcfdbd9f42938560dba53 Trimmed AUTO-TRIMMED, unreviewed: kept paragraphs 5-10 plus headline [0]; dropped 4 leading and 0 trailing paragraphs. Case-term hits on page: 14. Caveat retrieved from a live page on the date above. Unlike text copied from the spreadsheet, there is no second copy to hash it against. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved) Hong Kong cryptocurrency trader targeted in HK$2 million robbery, sparking citywide hunt for suspects | South China Morning Post A citywide police hunt is under way for a gang of thieves after a cryptocurrency trader was sprayed in his eyes with an unknown substance and robbed of HK$2 million while he was on his way to buy bitcoin in Hong Kong on Tuesday. The suspects struck in broad daylight in the car park of Legend Tower on Shing Yip Street in Kwun Tong, shortly before 4.30pm. According to police, the 22-year-old victim was targeted after he parked his car. “While he was waiting for a lift, two men approached him and sprayed an unknown liquid into his eyes before snatching his green bag containing HK$2 million,” a police spokesman said, adding the victim said the substance had left him briefly unable to see. Officers said the two robbers fled in a white car driven by a third man, the three suspects later abandoned the car at the junction of Hoi Yuen Road and Shing Yip Street, and fled on foot heading towards Wai Yip Street. Officers combed the area, but no arrests were made. The spokesman said the victim did not request hospital treatment in the incident. ================================================================================================ generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 089 ================================================================================================