Read the full judgment text of HCA 148/2020 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 12 April 2024.
1. In January 2020 the Plaintiff (Idemitsu HK) fell prey to a sophisticated phone and email scam. It was tricked into transferring US$2,978,000 to the bank account (the Yanqing account) of the 1 st Defendant (Yanqing) at CMB Wing Lung Bank Limited on 15 January 2020. It was also duped into remitting a total of US$13,171,000 to the bank account (the Zhigang account) of the 2 nd Defendant (Zhigang) at Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited between 15 and 20 January 2020. Shortly after discovering the f
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