THE investigation into the alleged breach of Stock Exchange regulations by Ming Pao Enterprise chairman Yu Pun-hoi is expected to widen.
This follows the uncovering of a further offence committed by Yu while he was a student in Canada.
Yu is under investigation for having failed to reveal fraud and firearms offences committed in 1979. But it has now emerged that these were not his first convictions in the country.
A previously undisclosed conviction has come to light in Saskatoon, Canada.
In December 1978, Yu stole goods worth C$200 from the Hudson Bay Co. department store in Saskatoon.
In January 1979, he pleaded guilty to the shoplifting charge, and Judge W. L. Meagher fined him C$50. Yu paid the fine on the last day before he would have been jailed for 21 days for defaulting.
In addition, the judge placed Yu on probation for 12 months and ordered him to stay out of Hudson Bay Co. stores and Canadian Tyre stores in Saskatoon for 12 months.