On August 1, Mrs. Pu reported her husband as missing to local police in Longgang District, Shenzhen. The 28-year-old man, surnamed Li, had been gone for a few days, she told officers. What's more, his cell phone wasn't connecting.
On the 5th, Pu reported a change in the situation, and not for the better. She'd tried calling her husband's cell phone again, but someone else picked up and claimed Pu had the wrong number.
But when police called from a different phone, it was the missing man himself who answered. Li told officers he'd been snatched up at an intersection by three burly men, who'd put him in a van and then locked him inside a room, blindfolded.
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Police traced his location to a KTV in Longgang, not the most likely place to hold a hostage. On top of the fact that Li mysteriously was able to use his phone in captivity, they also found that he'd recently spent money at various 'leisure and recreational' spots.
The mystery was solved when Li showed up at the police station in person. He admitted to making up the kidnapping and disappearing on his wife to cover up the fact that he'd squandered RMB10,000 of their savings on food, drink and entertainment.
As far as coverups go, Li has proven himself to be a pretty unsmooth criminal. He's currently serving out five days of police detention for his false claims.
[Cover image via Tencent News]
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