80 million won in congratulatory money was stolen after seeing the wedding video posted on social media...Don't take cash
Oct 15, 2025
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According to Hong Kong media South China Morning Post, Peng Mo, who broke into a family home in Jiangxi Province, China on the 2nd and secretly took 380,000 yuan (about 76 million won), was caught by police.
After watching the wedding video of the victim with the same surname on Douyin (Chinese version of TikTok), he found a Peng family living in Tishan Village through a map app.
That night, he wore a wig and sneaked into the victim's house and stole an entire cash box containing wedding congratulatory money, a bride's marriage, and congratulatory gifts.
The victim confirmed the theft the next morning and reported it to the police, who initially suspected one of the guests was the culprit.
Police analyzed nearby CCTV and captured the thief Peng, who left with a carrier around 4 a.m., and tracked his vehicle through additional video analysis and arrested him at home. The stolen cash was found in a store run by his wife.
According to the investigation, Peng stated that he was in a lot of debt due to gambling addiction and committed the crime aiming at the custom of keeping cash at home after the wedding.
In addition, he was found to have stolen 20,000 to 30,000 yuan (4 million to 6 million won), respectively, from two families who had completed the wedding before the incident.
He has continued his crime, judging that the victims' families will cover up the problem by mistaking it as the work of an insider.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
