Trio jailed for Hong Kong's priciest art heist

The police were alerted by a collector who realised the goods he received were stolen. - AFP

Hong Kong's art community was rocked by the theft that included a two-metre tall scroll containing a 1929 Politburo report written by Mao Zedong valued at hundreds of millions of dollars -- but was sold to an amateur collector for just HK$200 . The items were lifted in September 2020 from an apartment belonging to Chinese collector Fu Chunxiao in the city's bustling Kowloon district.

Ho Yik-chiu, 46, Ng Wing-lun, 45, and Hui Ping-kei, 48, were jailed for up to two and half years after pleading guilty to being involved in the crime, SCMP reported.

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