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Topic

Prevention of bribery ordinance s9(3)

Legal area

Court

1 Mar 2005

HKSAR v. SZETO LOK KI AND ANOTHER

Citation

HKSAR v. SZETO LOK KI AND ANOTHER
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC191/2003

The Court held that "financial interest" must be given its ordinary, contextual meaning and that on the facts the second applicant (and effectively the first by knowledge) had a beneficial/financial interest in the property despite the artifice; illegality of the underlying scheme did not negate the existence of that interest for the purposes of the PTA regulation, so the statements in the PTA application were false and leave to appeal against conviction was dismissed.
5 Sept 2003

HKSAR v. CHAN YEE CHING

Citation

HKSAR v. CHAN YEE CHING
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCMA736/2003

The Magistrate permissibly drew multiple corroborative inferences from circumstantial and documentary evidence — substantial commission payments into the appellant's pay account, signature comparison evidence, AIA's normal office and payment procedures, and personal information linking the appellant — and these concurrent factors supported the conclusion that the appellant knew of and participated in the fraudulent scheme; admissible section 65B statements and expert opinion reinforced those inferences, so the convictions were upheld.