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Topic

Benefit valuation

Legal area

Court

5 Feb 2021

HKSAR v. WONG PUI TING HEIDI

Citation

[2021] HKDC 142
Court

District Court
Case number

DCCC83/2019

The court found on the balance of probabilities that the complete ledgers are the best evidence of the defendant's net benefit and that the defendant's proceeds from the specified offence total HK$33,189,534.45; defence deductions were not proven and therefore no deductions were allowed; a confiscation order for HK$33,189,534.45 was made with a 10-year default imprisonment term.
5 Feb 2021

HKSAR v. WONG PUI TING HEIDI

Citation

[2021] HKDC 142
Court

District Court
Case number

DCCC463/2019

The court accepted the complete handwritten ledgers as the best and reliable evidence of the defendant's net proceeds from the conspiracy to live on the earnings of prostitution, found the recoverable benefit to be HK$33,189,534.45, rejected the defence's proposed deductions for lack of proof, and ordered that sum be confiscated with payment due in six months and a 10-year default imprisonment term.