Bossini heiress kidnapping: Hong Kong police recover HK$6.35m in ransom money from remote hillside
All the money has been recovered except for HK$110,000, which is believed to have been spent by the kidnap gang
Almost every cent of the HK$28 million ransom paid to secure the release of kidnapped Bossini clothing chain heiress Queenie Rosita Law is back in the hands of the authorities after police found HK$6.35 million buried in Ma On Shan country park on Thursday.
Almost a year after the dramatic abduction, just HK$110,000 – believed to have been spent by the kidnappers – remains unrecovered.
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The painstaking cross-border hunt for the cash came to an end when detectives discovered bundles of HK$1,000 banknotes wrapped in plastic inside a nylon bag 35cm below ground in dense undergrowth on a remote hillside near the village of Mui Tsz Lam shortly after 10am on Thursday.
“The site was identified after Hong Kong police received information from our mainland counterparts,” a source with knowledge of the investigation said, adding that it was close to where police recovered HK$15 million in August last year
Both stashes of cash were found not far from a cave where Law – whose grandfather Law Ting-pong founded the Bossini empire – was held captive for three days in late April while the kidnappers waited for the payout.
The search for the remaining cash began on Wednesday. A team of 20 officers started digging in a narrowed-down area on Thursday morning.
