A 30-year-old woman from mainland China has been arrested as part of a sting on an alleged syndicate luring rich businesswomen to Hong Kong for bogus plastic surgery treatments.
The scheme was brought to public attention this week after Apple Daily released the results of a two-month undercover investigation on dozens of rich mainland women who have come to Hong Kong on five-day tours, during which they received plastic surgery and other treatments in modified five-star hotel rooms.
According to the report, a company called Boka Internation Group charged dozens of women a fee of HKD38,000, plus extra cash on top for Botox, hyaluronic acid and hormone injections. It is thought that the group was making upwards of HKD9 million a month and has been in operation for more than five years.
Mainlanders apparently posed as foreign doctors in Hong Kong to carry out the procedures, so God knows how these women’s faces turned out!
On announcing the arrest yesterday, Hong Kong police also said that they had seized drugs and medical equipment from an office in C-Bons International Centre on Wai Yip Street, Kwun Tong. It is thought to be the local base of the Shenzhen-based syndicate.
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