Burglars escaped with a Chinese landscape painting and other valuables when they raided a prominent businessman's luxury home on The Peak yesterday.
Neither Kwek Leng-hai, president and chief executive of the listed Guoco Group, an investment holding company, nor his family, were in the two-storey house in Middle Gap Road and police said the alarm system had not been turned on.
Police said the burglars climbed over a wall into the backyard and then prised open a glass sliding door to get into the house.
'Signs of ransacking were detected in the living room and bedrooms,' an officer said.
Kwek is in Singapore and will return to Hong Kong at the weekend.
'An initial investigation shows that a Chinese landscape painting and some jewellery and luxury watches were stolen,' an investigator said. 'There are a lot of paintings in the house. It is not known whether the one stolen is the most expensive.'