Are they same people? Rong Zuan Dai, is not Patrick Dai, they just shared the same family name. No doubt that the same people, because this p2p lending scam is the largest case in China.
the crypto community world is still very small, so anyone with surname/given name Dai has a some good chance of being the same person.
Qtum will be able to verify this, or verificable directly from the SCMP company.
If you read the article twice, Rong Zuan Dai is the name of the scam platform. And there is no evidence that the platform scams people with cryptocurrencies.