[The Hong Kong government clarifies that Chen Guoji’s virtual currency investment is fictitious and the police are following up]

The Office of the Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region stated that it has recently discovered that online news platforms and social media contain the name and news pictures of Chief Secretary for Administration Chen Guoji, and induce clicks to connect to suspicious transactions claiming to involve the virtual currency "Bitcoin" Fraudulent advertisements and web pages on the platform. The Secretary's Office solemnly clarifies that it has never issued or authorized any relevant advertisements, and the Secretary has never conducted the so-called interviews claimed in the advertisements. The remarks contained in them are all fabricated, and the matter has been transferred to the police for follow-up investigation. The Secretary's Office urges members of the public to be vigilant against fraudulent online advertisements that pretend to be interviews with the Chief Secretary for Administration, and not to log into any suspicious web pages or provide personal information to websites of unknown origin through such advertisements.