Lai See | Zervos says the wheels of justice are still spinning

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Kevin Zervos, has written in after reading our recent piece about cases which seem to be taking a long time coming to court.

He writes to say: "I am very concerned by the false impression the article has portrayed of me and the office. These files are not sitting in my in-tray."

The cases we referred to were: the investigation into former chief executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen's alleged schmoozing with tycoons, which was initiated by the ICAC in February 2012; the investigation into the affair involving 20 unsold flats at Henderson Land's residential property development at 39 Conduit Road, which was started in July 2010; and Citic Pacific's alleged fraud, which goes back to December 2008.

There has been considerable public interest in these cases. For readers who might be curious about progress in these cases, Zervos offers this update.

He writes that the Tsang case is still under investigation by the ICAC and is subject to oversight by that body's operational review committee.

In his letter, Zervos says: "The Citic case has been the subject of extensive legal proceedings, with the involvement of outside senior counsel and in-house counsel and [the] investigation is being advised upon by the case counsel."