Hong Kong logged over 90,000 reported crime cases in 2023 – a 28.9 per cent increase from a year earlier. The rise was led by a surge in fraud-related offences and violent crime, including robbery and rape, according to police data released on Tuesday. Deception cases rose by 42.6 per cent last year, and were the major cause for the upward trend in overall crime, Commissioner of Police Raymond Siu told reporters at a press conference to announce the latest figures. Close to 70 per cent of fraud cases were linked to online scams, with losses nearing HK$9 billion in total, Siu said in Cantonese,…