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As China’s economy continues to grow despite the slowdown, more residents move from middle class to being wealthy. However, having big houses, cars, jewelry and other signs of fortune are magnets for thieves, scammers and robbers.
One method of sneaking inside the homes or gated communities of the wealthy is as old as ancient Greece – the use of a Trojan Horse. However, instead of creating a horse-looking gift, now obvious to educated Chinese, the craft robbers hid inside wooden crates used for deliveries.
The giant boxes allowed the robbers to escape being detected by security personnel. Once inside the apartment block, they climbed out of the crates at midnight and broke into the home of a rich couple in Sichuan Province, the Chengdu Economic Daily reported.
Upon gaining entry to the couple’s home, the forced the man and woman to swallow tablets. Not content with stealing from the couple, the robbers took with them the wife aboard the wealthy pair’s Audi vehicle, according to surveillance camera footage.
The car was eventually left near a lake. The video footage allowed authorities to establish the identity of the two suspects who were eventually arrested with a third person who is the brains behind the modern Trojan Horse scheme, reported the South China Morning Post.
Tong, the mastermind of the crime, confessed that he heard about the wealthy couple from friends. He said he planned the robbery to pay for his medical bills since he is a diabetic and divorced man with two children to support.
But he said he never heard of the story of the Trojan Horse and instead thought of using wooden crates after observing how security personnel do not scrutinize containers entering villages. He asked his nephew and a friend to hide inside the crate and called a shipping firm to deliver it to an apartment block.
