Two young people in Hong Kong sentenced to detention for a 2 million HKD USDT scam

ChainCatcher News reports that, according to Hong Kong media Ming Pao, the Hong Kong District Court today sentenced two 18-year-olds to detention for their involvement in a USDT scam involving HKD 2 million. The two youths were convicted of executing the scam and sent to a juvenile detention center. The case details show that in November last year, a victim went to a money exchange shop in Tsim Sha Tsui to purchase USDT worth over HKD 2 million. Following instructions, he handed over cash to the two defendants and placed it in the shop’s safe. After multiple reminders, the victim still did not receive the USDT and requested a refund, only to find the cash had disappeared. Investigations revealed that the safe was separated from an adjacent shop by only a sheet of black paper, with a hidden passage allowing easy access to the cash. The two defendants were caught while attempting to escape through the passage. Judge Cheng Nian-ci stated that although the two defendants were not the masterminds, they played an indispensable role as pawns in the scam, involving a large amount of money and clearly premeditated. Considering that both were only 18 at the time of the incident and had no prior criminal record, detention was deemed more conducive to rehabilitation than direct imprisonment.