Fringe benefits for HK's finest

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.