Police in Putian city, Fujian Province, on Thursday successfully
arrested three men who robbed 1,700,000 HK dollars from a bank
customer in Guangzhou in early January.
The Fuzhou-based Southeast Express reports several
squads of policemen in Thursday evening were sent to surround a
hotel in Putian city, where one of the suspects was located. The
man, Xie Wei, was caught as he stepped out of the hotel.
The police found more than 200,000 yuan (US$25,000) of the
stolen money on Xie.
The other two suspects, called Xing and Tao, were later seized
with a large amount of illicit money near the entry to the
Fuzhou-Quanzhou highway.
The three men plundered 1,700,000 HK dollars and a cellphone
from a man on January 9. The victim had just drawn the money out of
a bank and was driving out of the parking lot when he was
attacked.
Police sources revealed Xie Wei was preparing to flee to
Guangdong province while he was in Putian. He had already traveled
around the Tianjin municipality, and the Hubei and Fujian provinces
in a bid to evade the police.
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(CRI January 27, 2007)
