23 Oct 2019
HKSAR v. LAI KIN HANG ERWIN AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2019] HKCA 547
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC373/2017
On the totality of admissible direct and circumstantial evidence — company registry records showing control, bank account signatory records and numerous cheques issued in applicants' signatures, operation of a call centre, consistent victim identifications and CCTV/seized documents linking individuals to Wincades — the judge was entitled to infer each applicant's complicity in a single global conspiracy to defraud; absence of expert signature evidence or some successful loan outcomes did not render the inferences impermissible or the convictions unsafe; leave to appeal was therefore refused a…