Mogul's moments in the spotlight
Before yesterday's events, tycoon Albert Yeung had already been involved in a number of high-profile court cases, investigations and violent incidents during the past two decades:
July 9: Emperor International Holdings, an arm of Mr Yeung's vast business empire, comes under scrutiny. Officers from the police Commercial Crime Bureau request that a subsidiary company - Emperor Finance Limited - hand over information relating to its market practices between 1996 and 1997. The investigation continues.
October 2002: Mr Yeung's Eastweek magazine runs a photograph of a semi-naked actress, taken during an abduction 12 years ago, on its cover. The incident sparks a massive public outcry and forces Mr Yeung to shut the publication down.
April 2002: A group of men hurl bricks and a shovel through the windows of two minibuses outside a Happy Valley hotel owned by Mr Yeung.
March 2002: Pop singer Nicholas Tse, whose record label EEG is owned by Mr Yeung, is arrested after Tse claims someone else was at the wheel of his Ferrari when it crashed on Cotton Tree Drive in Central. He is sentenced to 240 hours of community service after he is found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
August 2001: Mr Yeung is apprehended by Hong Kong detectives, who board a British Airways flight from London, in connection with an alleged assault on disc jockey and actor Leung Sze-ho. One of EEG's top singers, Joey Yung Cho-yee, is also arrested over the same incident. Both are later freed without charge.
1995: Mr Yeung is acquitted of criminal intimidation and false imprisonment after all five prosecution witnesses in the case say that they cannot recall details of the alleged offences.
1989: Mr Yeung escapes a kidnapping attempt in Central
1981: Mr Yeung is sent to prison for nine months after being convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice in the case of an assault by high-profile jockey Tony Cruz.
