19 Mar 1998
HKSAR v. WONG CHONG KAI
- Citation
- HKSAR v. WONG CHONG KAI
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC551/1997
The Court held that taken together the surrounding circumstances — false and inconsistent shipping descriptions, instruction to describe contents as "auto parts", use of a chop for a non-existent company, the appellant's continued control and instructions regarding the container and its relocation to an insecure roadside near the border, and the recent thefts in Taiwan — legitimately supported the inference that the appellant knew or believed the vehicles to be stolen when he received the container on or about 12 December 1996; the doctrine of recent possession applies even where goods remain…