11 Jul 2016
HKSAR v. YEUNG KA SING, CARSON
- Citation
- HKSAR v. YEUNG KA SING, CARSON
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACC6/2015
The Court held that s25(1) OSCO does not require proof that the property actually constituted proceeds of an indictable offence (Oei correctly decided); the mens rea limb ‘having reasonable grounds to believe’ is assessed by reference to the grounds available to the defendant (Seng Yuet Fong / Pang Hung Fai) including subjective beliefs that may be exculpatory and the ‘knew or ought to have known’ phrase in Pang Hung Fai is not to be read as importing negligence; and aggregation of multiple dealings in money‑laundering charges is permissible where the dealings form a common enterprise or are…