A 59-year-old man was arrested for alleged conspiracy to defraud in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island on Wednesday after his company failed to book air-tickets for about 600 Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong.
Peter Boyce, the Australian co-owner of Peya Travel Agency, was arrested by the Central Police District Crime Squad in a residential apartment in Wan Chai and has been detained for investigation, Oriental Daily reported.
He is the husband of Rhea Donna Boyce, co-owner of the travel agency who was arrested by police on Monday.
Rhea Boyce was released on bail on Wednesday afternoon pending further inquiries. She needs to report to the police in early January, Sing Pao reported.
The ticketing fiasco unveiled a week before Christmas when a group of Filipino domestic workers found that air-tickets purchased from Peya Travel, were invalid at Hong Kong International Airport.
According to police, a total of 645 victims paid up to HK$2 million (US$255,943) to Peya Travel for their tickets.
Meanwhile, police also received a report from a 67-year-old man who said Peya Travel had not paid for HK$3 million worth of air-tickets since May this year.
Read: Co-owner of HK’s Peya Travel arrested for suspected fraud
Give them poison!!!!!!!
Yn ang dahilan kya nd ako ngpabook ng tiket k dyn mga high p s ulap ang mga peg ng tao dyn…kinarma 2loy…
Jan kami lagi kuha tickt ,over charge a ang susugit mga staff nya,u deserved Sana madeport kana sa pinas tang na,himdi ka naawa say mga kapwa mo pinay
Allah never sleep
Isa ako na nabektima nila sbinila binayadak yong ticket ko pabalik,
How did they expected to get away with that scam, and not get caught? Not one or two, but 645. For they are for some reason desperate, or bloody stupid either.
Karma sa kanya,akala nya donya na sya
isa ako sa na peke nang peya travel agency na iyan. ang laki nang nawala sa akin. may 7,500 hongkong dollars sana ako na christmas bonus galing sa amo pero dahil sa panloloko nang peya na yan nawala. nong nalaman nang amo ko na hindi ako makaka uwi dahil sa pekeng ticket na bigay nang peya. ibinili ako nang amo ko nang business class na ticket pauwi dahil fully book na ang economy pero ung ibibigay sana na bunos ko na 7,500 hk$ ang pinambili rin. naka uwi nga ako pero walang pera. kaya ikaw peya ebalik ninyo ang pera namin na ninakaw ninyo dahil mas malaki ang mawawala sa inyo. nakalabas ka temporary para maebalik mo ang mga pera namin. paeralin mo naman ang konsensya mo kung may natitira pa!
How the Hongkong will wake up of course its cost a thousand dollars compared to 500 hundred dollars ..kung baga iba yong may tinitingnan Kaysa tinititigan…????????????
Eh feelingera Kaya…
This is a large scale estafa and large scale estafa is not bailable. Ung dh na planted nag nakaw ng 500 dollars was denied to post a bail pero eto million pinayagan mag bail. Wake up Hong Kong!!!
Mayabang umasta yun eh..xa pala ang me ari .manloloko pala sila
yan ang ang tinatawag PERA TRAVEL AGENCY
Put them in prison
Ang suplada pati ng Rhea Donna na yan, akala mo kung sinong umasta. Dapat kahit sino at ano pa man ang status ng customer nila eh customer yan, syang sila kumikita. Buti nga sa inyong mga demonyo kayo, di nyo alam kung gaano kahirap kinita ng mga ofw yan. Dapat nyan ay binibitay kung pwede nga lang.
I just notice these greedy people always make ofws as their victim. Oh lord we work hard for every cents we earned then u guys took it away in just a click…
Karma is real…
so greedy people. yoh victimize helpers who wants to spend their few weeks vacation to be with their families. there is always a consequence to a bad action, hope you will be put to jail. your agency gives me and my sister in law a hard time to figure out how she can go home. We are just fortunate she get through eventhough it was delayed as the airport cannot find booked tickets in their system on that awful sunday.
ang kahudas nu..naging millionair kau 8dahil sa dugo at pawis ng nga ofw..