In one incident in particular, a foreigner had a huge cash sum stolen from him. Accomplices working with the women would then enter the apartment via a hole in the back of the wardrobe and replace the money and valuables with fake goods. After being caught following the revelations of the story discussed in the article, the gang is now being held in police custody. A prostitute who had been studying English in order to attract foreign clientele was recently detained by police after it was discovered that she and her accomplices, who were also detained, were stealing money and other possessions from foreigners when they were brought back to her apartment.
In the wardrobe in the rented apartment, it was discovered that a hole had been dug where an accomplice from the neighbouring apartment would sneak through and steal money and other valuables from the foreigners during massages. On one night in particular, an amount of , RMB was stolen. At around on May 25 , a foreigner came out of a hotel in Guangzhou, and was approached by a woman who offered him massage services. It was then that the woman took him to her rented apartment on Xihua Lu.
Jake told the police that when he came out of the hotel, he was approached by an attractive woman wearing a short black skirt and a tight-fitting white shirt. He explained that after he and the woman had been in her apartment for around ten minutes, she answered a phone call and hurriedly told Jake that the police were coming to inspect her apartment.
Then, the woman suddenly grabbed her clothes and ran away. Jake then realized that all of the cash as well as his phone which were stored in a bag in the wardrobe of the apartment had been swapped for fake replacements. The four, who were two men surnamed Deng both 41 and 23 respectively , a man surnamed Wei 23 , and a woman surnamed Chen 29 were all under suspicion of theft and were made to payback stolen funds amounting to , RMB.
During the trial, the four all admitted to committing the crime against the foreigner. It was concluded that when Jake was focusing all of his attention on the woman, two men had snuck through the hole in the wall and out of the wardrobe, and subsequently switched his money and phone with fake replacements.
