Overview
- Authorities in Hong Kong filed conspiracy-to-rob charges against three Japanese men aged 23–28 and a 53-year-old Chinese woman, alleging two were the robbers and one acted as an inside collaborator.
- Police said the Hong Kong loss totals about ¥51 million, revised from ¥58 million, taken from a backpack in Sheung Wan shortly after the pair arrived from Japan to exchange roughly ¥190 million.
- Two additional suspects—a mainland Chinese national and a Hong Kong resident—were arrested earlier and later released, while cross-border information sharing continues on possible links to Tokyo cases.
- Tokyo police located a white Prius matching the Haneda attackers’ car abandoned on an Atsugi riverbed with fire-extinguisher powder and no plates; the vehicle had been reported stolen in Kasukabe.
- Investigators say victims regularly moved cash from gold deals for currency exchange in Hong Kong, and they are examining ties to a Ueno street theft of about ¥423 million and to a prior ¥95 million loss.