A robber who pretended to be a guest at the ultra-luxe \u00a0Peninsula in Hong Kong hotel was able to trick the staff into opening an in-room safe and escaped with HK$50,000 (about $6,446 USD).<\/p>\n
The man approached the front desk of the hotel at about 4am on Sunday claiming to have lost his room key. The room number he gave was occupied by a French businessman. He gave the businessman’s name and birth date as proof of identity. The real guest and his wife were in bed in the room at the time.<\/p>\n
After obtaining the spare key, the man apparently waited until the couple went out on Sunday afternoon before letting himself into their room.<\/span><\/p>\n “He then telephoned the front desk from the room saying he had forgotten the password of the safe and asked for assistance to open it,” a police officer said.<\/p>\n He greeted hotel staff wearing a pair of slippers, a blue T-shirt and jeans and they helped him open the safe. \u00a0After the staff left, the robber emptied the safe and escaped with cash, a laptop computer and several credit cards.<\/p>\n The break-in was discovered when the French businessman and his wife returned that evening. Police were called and after viewing footage from surveillance cameras, police said they were looking for a tall non-Asian man. Detectives suspect the intruder is from South America.<\/p>\n Director of public relations at The Peninsula, Olivia Toth, said she was unable to comment while police were investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A robber who pretended to be a guest at the ultra-luxe \u00a0Peninsula in Hong Kong hotel was able to trick the staff into opening an in-room safe and escaped with HK$50,000 (about $6,446 USD). The man approached the front desk…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[91,742],"tags":[150,437],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n