Man jailed for fraud, drugs

A 32-year-old man has been jailed two years and two weeks for being part of a transnational counterfeit credit card syndicate, and for drug possession. He was arrested March 3 while checking in at Hong Kong International Airport when a credit card shredder, three notebooks and a small quantity of cannabis were found in his possession. The District Court heard he had been recruited by a Dongguan man on the Mainland to escort a number of people to shop in Milan in August 2007 using counterfeit credit cards. Two of the notebooks,... [read full story]