Nanjing police solve China's largest gold theft case worth 27 million yuan and recover all stolen assets

Odaily Planet Daily reported that the Nanjing police in Jiangsu Province and the Chongzuo Border Management Detachment in Guangxi successfully solved a major gold theft case involving 27 million yuan through cross-provincial cooperation. The main perpetrators, Wang and Tong, who were heavily in debt from gambling, collaborated with another accomplice to plan and execute a theft targeting a luxury goods store in the Jiangning District of Nanjing, stealing a total of 37 gold items weighing 27 kilograms.

After the crime, the main suspect Tong fled south with some of the gold by ride-hailing car, attempting to sneak across the border via a remote path. He was intercepted and arrested by police from the Chongzuo Aidian Border Police Station just 100 meters from the China-Vietnam border, with 8.75 kilograms of gold seized on the spot. Subsequently, another suspect, Wang, who had already fled to Thailand, was arrested in Bangkok and extradited back to China. To date, all 11 suspects in the case have been apprehended, and all 27 kilograms of stolen gold have been recovered. (China News Weekly)