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HK's finest : experts at gathering evidence!!

Vice cops defend sex ops

Diana Lee

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Police chiefs are insisting on a "closed door" meeting to explain why undercover agents sometimes need to be "manually stimulated" by sex workers to get enough evidence to secure a vice prosecution.

The move came after lawmakers asked them to justify why they have not given up the practice of accepting limited sexual services in some investigations in line with overseas jurisdictions. 

Mugabe and the hk politician

Evil and incompetence. Lady Grace(less) Mugabe comes to HK and punches a reporter with diamond encrusted fingers in the face drawing blood. She is allowed diplomatic immunity but is not banned from future visits. Justice(less) Wong Yan-Lung proposes that "The police can stop Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe from hitting someone in Hong Kong if she tries to do it again".

Now, how exactly are the police going to prevent her, especially if she is above the law? Maybe Grace will provide her "beat the shit out of a reporter" schedule in advance enabling the keystone cops to be there to "prevent" her from punching the shit out of someone - maybe by putting their faces between the diamond encrusted fist of evil and it's target?

Next time, Mugabe's wife could face action
Ambrose Leung
Mar 31, 2009     


The police can stop Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe from hitting someone in Hong Kong if she tries to do it again, even though she has diplomatic immunity, Secretary for Justice Wong Yan-lung said yesterday.

But although the justice chief assured lawmakers that the government had raised with the central government concerns about an earlier assault case involving Mrs Mugabe, he admitted nothing more could be done to pursue the case.

Mr Wong was speaking at a meeting of the Legislative Council justice and legal services panel after lawmakers expressed anger over the case, in which the government was told by the Foreign Ministry's office in Hong Kong that Mrs Mugabe could not be prosecuted because of her immunity.

HK finest shoots homeless man on remote hillside threatening the fauna

In an suprising event, HK's finest shoots and actually hits his intended target. Unfortunately it was an ill thought out and shocking target. "In danger of his life" from a chair wielding homeless man, HK's Rambo shoots the homeless guy in the head after exhausting "all possibilities". Possibilities that didn't include him warning in English in addition to Cantonese or moving away to a safe distance before reinforcements arrive. Maybe HK's finest should spend more time on the streets confronting citizens and checking IDs and save lives by keeping them away from these situations.

Hopefully HK's finest Rambo is as successful with his aim when he turns the weapon around.

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Wednesday March 18 2009

Suspect dies after officer's shot to head Clifford Lo and Phyllis Tsang A suspected illegal immigrant who attacked a police officer with a wooden chair died in hospital last night after the constable shot him in the head at close range. The officer shot at the middle-aged South Asian man twice after using up his pepper spray, dropping his baton and falling to the ground during the attack on a hillside in Ho Man Tin, police said. The first shot missed but the second hit the man in the head. He was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where he died at 6.34pm. The police officer, attached to the patrol sub-unit of Hung Hom police station, suffered injuries to his arms and back. He was discharged from hospital after treatment. Preliminary investigations had showed the constable was justified in shooting because his life was in danger and he had exhausted all other possibilities, police said."

HK Finest (at fraud)

Retired policeman jailed 4 years for fraud

Retired Detective Senior Police Constable Poon King-chuen has been jailed four years by the District Court for perversion, forgery, deception and making a false report to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

 

Poon, 49, was found guilty of eight charges - one of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, three of perversion, one of forgery, one of using a copy of a false instrument, one of obtaining property by deception, and one of making a false report to the ICAC.

 

Three of the offences, which took place May 2 and July 16, 2007, related to a theft case at a department store which was being investigated by Poon. He conspired with a suspect to pervert the course of justice by procuring witness statements to be given in the name of a store security guard which would result in the withdrawal of prosecution against the suspect.

 

Poon informed the suspect to collect from her mailbox copies of two forged witness statements purportedly made by the security guard. In one of the statements the guard purportedly requested to withdraw the complaint of theft against the suspect. The statements, which were not made by the guard, were found to be forged.

 

Poon then made a false report to the ICAC accusing the suspect of offering $4,000 to the guard in return for the latter's assistance in fixing up the theft case against the suspect.

 

Four other offences took place between January 3 and August 29, 2007, and were related to a deception case handled by Poon in 2006.

 

He forged witness statements of three people who had jointly lodged a complaint with the Police against a person accused of obtaining loans by deception. The statements were purportedly given by the complainants to withdraw their complaint.

 

He also made false representations to the complainants the police investigation was still on-going, and there was little prospect of prosecuting the offender. He also claimed another person could assist in collecting the debts and dishonestly obtained $6,000 from one of the complainants.

 

On two different occasions Poon incited, induced and instructed the complainants to make false statements to the Police and the ICAC.

 

On November 10, 2006, Poon also incited, induced and instructed a 14-year-old boy, who was suspected to have stolen a mobile phone, to make a false statement to Police.

First Natural (1076) thieves update

Yeung Chung Lung, 55 - Chairman, Yang Le, 31 (Son), Ni Chao Peng, 33 (Son in Law). First Natural scambags.

The ongoing saga of the missing chairman (Yeung Chung Lung) underlines how "cash in the bank" for China companies is not really cash in the bank.

The Chairman Mr Yeung and his inbred scumbags brood, having looted the company are on the run... probably in Canada or Thailand.

Updated regulatory announcement:

"According to the information obtained by the PRC lawyers, a sum of approximately HK$84 million had been withdrawn in November 2008 from the Company’s accounts maintained with Xiamen International Bank. Such withdrawal was not recorded in the books and records of the Company and had not been made known to the existing Board."

The bunch of assholes have company property, probably in the way of seals and stamps and are probably still issuing company cheques.

"The Provisional Liquidators have engaged PRC lawyers to commence legal actions in the PRC

against Mr. Yeung and Mr. Yang Le [Father and Son] for the possible damages to the Group resulting from their illegal possessions of the PRC Subsidiaries’ properties, including but not limited to, the company chops and statutory certificates of the PRC Subsidiaries."

From the unaudited interim June report of 2008, they had $792m RMB cash and cash equivalents in the bank. At least $82m HKD has been confirmed as looted. They have $400m RMB in debt (not including AR). This leaves them with ~$300m RMB in cash. With 1.2b shares in circulation, this leaves 0.25cents/share in cash and ~$400m in PPE.

The red flag was the HUGE increase in AR which was $292m ($167m in 2007), this suggests that at least $130m was "transferred" in preparation for the year end disappearing act.

FN last traded at 0.295. If and this is a big IF, just $82m and the $130m in AR was looted, the NAV of the shares will be around 0.40 cents.

The auditors are: CCIF CPA Limited, 20F Sunning Plaza, 10 Hysan Ave, Causeway Bay, HK. From their home page are "CCIF CPA Limited is a medium-sized and well-established accounting firm rooted in Hong Kong." Rest assured the shareholders are first and naturally "rooted" and not only in HK.

HK Air pollution?

Ironic that a warning on HK air pollution references the HK EP department which is known to thumb twiddle and cover up the air quality problems.

Ocean Grand Chairman escapes fraud charge

Former Ocean Grand chairman cleared of fraud
Jury acquits Michael Yip of nine charges after five-week trial
Peter Brieger and Yvonne Tsui
Mar 20, 2009     

Former Ocean Grand Holdings chairman Michael Yip Kim-po was acquitted of a string of fraud charges yesterday, with jurors rejecting allegations that he had engineered a massive accounting fraud at the company.

The Court of First Instance jurors deliberated for four hours before they dismissed the government's case against Yip in 7-1 majority verdicts.

Yip, the ex-husband of actress Gigi Fu Ming-hin, was cleared on nine fraud charges in all, including conspiracy to defraud investors.

Co-defendant Kwok Chi-ngai was unanimously acquitted on a charge of conspiracy to falsify accounts.

Prosecutors alleged that Yip and Mr Kwok, a former Ocean Grand sales manager, falsely inflated company sales through a bogus invoice scheme between 2002 and 2006.

The trial was told that the pair funnelled hundreds of orders through a web of Ocean Grand subsidiaries and outside companies.

The director of one of those companies was a man nicknamed Tarzan, who appeared to be Yip's bodyguard, a witness testified.

Prosecutors had alleged that the defendants faked a delivery to one of the companies as Ocean Grand's accountants investigated the transactions.

About 40 witnesses, including forensic accountants and Ocean Grand directors, testified at the trial.

Wong Man-kit SC, Yip's barrister, said outside the court yesterday that the outside companies had not been used to hide bogus transactions but had processed renminbi-denominated orders from Ocean Grand's mainland customers.

An accounting expert called by the defence suggested the foreign-exchange explanation near the end of the trial.

The Commercial Crime Bureau rejected that argument yesterday.

"The defence merely raised a possibility of this dual role as a foreign-exchange agent," an investigator from the unit said after the hearing. "They had never tendered any concrete documents or solid evidence to support their claim. They only presented it to the jury as a possibility."

During the trial, Mr Wong had portrayed Yip as a big-picture manager who left financial details to his underlings.

The defence argued that Ocean Grand's audit committee and its outside accountants signed off on company financial statements while the alleged fraud was going on.

Neither Yip nor Mr Kwok testified.

After the verdict yesterday, Deputy High Court Judge Colin Mackintosh granted Yip's request that the government pay his legal costs for the five-week trial.

Prosecutor Peter Duncan SC, who opposed the request, argued that Yip had never told police or company liquidators that the outside companies were used as foreign-exchange agents.

"If that explanation had been given to investigators ... who knows where this investigation would have ended up?" he told the judge.

Mr Justice Mackintosh ruled that Yip had no legal obligation to explain the transactions to investigators or the accountants who were winding up Ocean Grand.

Mr Kwok's request to have his legal costs paid was denied. The sales manager brought suspicion on himself by telling conflicting stories to explain why he had signed off on transactions at the centre of the fraud allegations, Mr Justice Mackintosh ruled.

The jurors would be excused from trial duty if they were called again during the next decade, Mr Justice Mackintosh said, citing the trial's length and complexity.

Yip was immediately remanded in custody on separate fraud charges connected to business dealings at  the collapsed aluminium-products company.

Yip and four others, including his sister Yip Wan-fung, are scheduled to stand trial on those charges in the District Court in July.

French revolution 2009

Nic the little napoleon has his hands full.. whose head will they guillotine off?

Violent skirmishes broke out in Paris last night after a day in which millions took to the streets as part of a nationwide protest over the government's handling of the economic crisis.
 
Schools, courts, post offices, universities and hospitals were closed, with public transport severely disrupted, as up to 200 marches were organised against President Nicolas Sarkozy's approach to the global downturn. 

A Grand Field of shenanigans - would you invest in this crap?

Grand Field founder sues directors over transactions
Legal action employs rarely used section of company law
Nick Gentle and Peter Brieger
Mar 20, 2009     


In what is believed to be the first action of its kind in Hong Kong, the directors of listed Grand Field Group Holdings are being sued by a shareholder who is acting on behalf of the property developer.

A writ filed in the High Court on Wednesday used a rarely employed section of the Companies Ordinance that allowed company founder Wayland Tsang Wai-lun to launch the action over a series of allegedly improper transactions on behalf of Grand Field.

Tsang had to convince the court that his serious allegations against eight Grand Field directors, including chairman Chu King-fai, would be in the interests of the company before it could proceed, said Phillip Nunn, a lead partner for the case at solicitors Huen Wong & Co.

"Before [laws that allowed this kind of lawsuit] it would have been very difficult for an individual shareholder to bring such an action for misfeasance against the directors of a company," Mr Nunn said.

Tsang and his wife, Nancy Kwok Wai-man, who hold 22 per cent of Grand Field shares, were forced to step down as company directors in July 2007, just two weeks before they were charged with defrauding shareholders by the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

The couple has been engaged in litigation with the board ever since, and needed special permission from the High Court to bring this week's action.

The writ alleges Mr Chu and seven other present and former directors approved the transfer of HK$70 million to an illegally registered Shenzhen company.

Some of that money ended up in the hands of companies indirectly controlled by Grand Field's chairman, it alleged.

Mr Chu, the writ says, gave the directors sums of money, disguised as payments for expenses or overtime, so they would approve the payments.

The named directors were Huang Bing-huang, Vincent Au Kwok-chuen, Hwang Ho-tyan, Zhao Juqun, Yang Biao, Wong Yun-kuen and Mok King-tong.

In December, Grand Field filed a writ against the couple, alleging they defrauded shareholders and company directors.

The Tsangs, who were also accused of lying to stock market regulators, allegedly told the exchange that Grand Field wanted to issue 315 million new shares to finance an investment in a HK$63 million Chongqing gas pipeline project.

But that deal never existed, according to the allegations. The couple also sold Grand Field's Chintex unit at a loss to keep market regulators from probing the pipeline deal, according to the lawsuit.

Also charged in connection with the case was Li Tai-pang, former representative of Sino Richest; Charles Cheng Kai-ming, executive director of locally listed financial services provider Upbest Group; George Li Kwok-cheung, executive director of Upbest; and David Wong Wai-kwong, an independent director at Upbest.

Need for girlfriend

Another chairman disappears in China

Head of East Star ‘missing’: reports
Reuters in Beijing
12:14pm, Mar 18, 2009     

Air China (SEHK: 0753, announcements, news) ’s acquisition bid for East Star Airlines, a small struggling carrier, has been thrown into confusion after the East Star chairman went missing, domestic media and the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

An Air China news department official told the China Securities Journal that the flag carrier’s merger offer had yet to receive a reply from East Star, a private airline that has been grounded because of unpaid debts.

The official securities newspaper said that an anonymous letter from East Star stated that its chairman, Lan Shili, could not be accounted for.

Caijing, a financial magazine, reported on its website that Lan Shili had been placed under house detention after East Star’s operating licence was suspended on Sunday.

The Financial Times also said Lan Shili had “disappeared”.

Air China and East Star officials were not immediately available for comment.

Air China chairman Kong Dong said earlier this week that the flag carrier would press ahead with its planned acquisition of East Star, which is based in the central city of Wuhan and has a fleet of nine aircraft.

Slumping air traffic due to slowing domestic demand has made it difficult for mainland’s small private airlines to compete with state-owned Air China, China Eastern (SEHK: 0670) and China Southern.

Since December, China Eastern and China Southern have announced plans to receive a total of 10 billion yuan (HK$11.35 billion) in cash injections from the government to help them ride out the slump. Private carriers do not enjoy such support.

Xming & Putty

Serve linux apps on a windows machine.

export DISPLAY='serverIP:0.0'

update X0.hosts file ( in the Xming program directory)

Died running into walls while playing hide and seek

Former justice official decries torture in prisons
Reuters in Beijing
Mar 14, 2009     
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A former vice-minister of justice on the mainland has criticised torture in its prisons, after the death of a prisoner was found to have been covered up by officials who said it was the result of a game of "hide and seek".

Duan Zhengkun said: "Detention houses should not be managed by public security departments, because they make the arrests and sometimes torture the accused to force them to confess."

Judicial authorities have pledged to step up inspections of prisons and detention facilities to prevent inmates from being bullied or tortured.

The case of Li Qiaoming, an inmate in a Yunnan prison, had sparked public outrage. Authorities claimed he died after running into a wall while playing hide and seek. After an outcry on the internet, an investigation revealed that he had been beaten to death by a fellow prisoner.

The case "put a huge question mark on security inside China's prisons", official media reported, citing procuratorate spokesman Tong Jianming. Officials have pledged inspection tours and punishment in cases of judicial corruption or dereliction of duty.

Luo Jingbo, 57, detained for illegally holding and trading firearms, was beaten to death last week in a detention centre on the southern island of Hainan, the Hainan Special Zone Daily said yesterday.

HK's finest in drag, masturbating in public.

Policeman in drag arrested for masturbating in public

Staff Reporter

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

A 49-year-old police officer dressed in drag was arrested for masturbating in public in the early hours of yesterday.

It is understood the officer, who works at Central Police Station, drove to Hung Shui Kiu, Yuen Long - widely known by as the "Bridge of Ghosts" - and parked shortly after midnight yesterday.

According to the police, he was wearing see-through clothes and fishnet stockings which exposed his body.

The officer, who is understood to work as a force driver, hid in a patch of grass and began performing a sex act on himself before he was spotted by a couple near the bridge.

The couple called the police, who arrived and caught the man while he was still in the act.


Officers found sex toys during a search of his car.

Police said the man was arrested for indecent exposure, and that he refused to be sent to hospital for a check on his mental condition.

A force spokesman said last night that the man has not yet been charged and their investigations are continuing.

The officer has been released on bail.

A spate of incidents involving police officers have occurred in recent months, including one officer who allegedly raped a young woman inside Mong Kok police station, and another officer who raped a girl he met on the internet. 

Molestation? What molestation?

Public blamed for sacking of abusive official
Fiona Tam
Mar 09, 2009     

A top maritime official has criticised netizens and "improper public opinions" that forced authorities to sack his subordinate last year over a child molestation claim.

Liu Gongchen, the deputy director of the Maritime Safety Administration, said the dismissal of Lin Jiaxiang was the result of the actions of a small group of people that were acting against officials and the government, the Guangzhou-based News Express reported yesterday.

Mr Liu, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said the group were sophisticated and knew how to manipulate netizens and that the sacked subordinate was a victim.

"I feel that public servants are now a disadvantaged group ... [Mr Lin was sacked] simply because of uncontrolled drunkenness and a quarrel in a public place ... he was just down on his luck," Mr Liu was quoted as saying.

Mr Lin, the former chief of the Shenzhen Maritime Bureau, was accused of molesting an 11-year-old girl in November.

He was sacked after he allegedly pinched the girl's neck and tried to molest her in a restaurant bathroom.

CCTV footage of the encounter had been spread on the internet.

Mr Lin's drunkenness and arrogant remarks to the girl and her parents were widely condemned by mainland netizens.

But the city's police said after an investigation that under mainland law Mr Lin's treatment of the primary school girl was not molestation, and only recommended that party discipline authorities punish him for his remarks and behaviour towards the girl and her parents.

Mr Liu said the sacked official had received his salary and welfare package every month since the scandal, though was not allowed to resume his post.

"Why should he be fired? He hasn't done anything wrong," he said.

"The police didn't identify the behaviour as molestation and he didn't break the law."

He urged authorities to launch more campaigns to effectively root out the internet hostility that could destroy public servants' careers.

HK Police files available on the internet... again

Security chief expresses concern as another police leak emerges
Paggie Leung
Mar 09, 2009     

Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong yesterday expressed concern about new police data leaks on the internet, just hours before an internet user confirmed to local media that he had downloaded what appeared to be police examination papers through file-sharing software Foxy. 

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First Natural (1076) on the run

(The case of the Chairman in hiding).

Update from provisional liquidators.

18th Feb:

UPDATE ON THE RESIGNED DIRECTORS

As stated in the Announcement, Mr. Yang, Mr. Ni and Mr. Lu (the “Resigned Directors”) tendered

their resignations as the Directors for personal reasons with effect from 12th December 2008. In their

resignation letters, the Resigned Directors only cited personal reasons for their resignations and had not

specified whether they had any disagreements with the Board nor were there any matters that needed

to be brought to the attention of the shareholders of the Company (the “Shareholders”). As such, the

Company was only able to announce their resignations based on the content of their resignation letters.

Since the appointment as Provisional Liquidators of the Company, Messrs. Stephen Liu Yiu Keung and

David Yen Ching Wai of Ernst & Young Transactions Limited (the “Provisional Liquidators”) have been

trying to contact the Resigned Directors but without much success. The Provisional Liquidators did,

eventually, manage to contact Mr. Yang on 6th February 2009. However, Mr. Yang did not elaborate

on the reason of his resignation nor did he indicate if there were any disagreements with the Board and

any matters that needed to be brought to the attention of the Shareholders. Currently, the Provisional

Liquidators are still trying to contact the other two Resigned Directors.

Ex-policeman guilty of perversion

Retired Senior Police Constable Poon King-chuen has been found guilty by the District Court of perversion, forgery, deception, and making a false report to the Independent Commission Against Corruption

Cop kicked woman in bag grab

Adele Wong

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

A police officer has admitted stealing a woman's handbag in the street after kicking her as she lay on the ground.

Long-serving constable Leung Wai-hung pleaded guilty at the District Court yesterday to one count of robbery.

Leung, 44, snatched Cheung So-ching's bag, which contained more than 10,000 yuan (HK$11,338), in Tuen Mun last July.

The case was adjourned for sentencing, pending a background report.

Judge Joseph Yau Chi-lap noted that Leung was of good character and had been in the force for 25 years, saying that his crime marked a fall from grace.

In mitigation, Leung claimed to have been in financial difficulties at the time of the crime. Letters were also submitted to the court from Leung's wife, his brother and two daughters.

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Dressed in a wig, a cap, and mask, Leung sneaked up behind Cheung, 53, who was returning to her Greenland Garden flat at around 11am on July 9.

The court heard that Leung yanked the woman's handbag out of her arms, causing her to lose her balance and fall.

He then kicked her arms and legs and hit her on the head with the bag before trying to flee.

Cheung shouted to passersby for help and Leung was pinned to the ground after a short chase. She was able to retrieve her handbag.

Leung joined the police force in 1983 and his family has strong links to it.

His father was a senior police officer who was acquitted of murdering a fellow officer and has since left the force.

His youngest brother was also an officer who was discharged from the force in 1996.