Judge rules Carson Yeung's trial will go on
District Court finds missing documents from securities companies will not hinder fair hearing
The District Court yesterday dismissed an application by Birmingham City Football Club boss Carson Yeung Ka-sing to halt his HK$721 million money laundering trial.
The hairdresser turned soccer tycoon applied to the District Court on Monday for a permanent stay of proceedings, citing police abuse of process.
His lawyer Graham Harris SC also argued that some missing records would deprive Yeung of the chance of a fair trial.
Handing down his ruling, District Judge Douglas Yau Tak-hong said the defence failed to prove that the missing documents from seven securities companies - amended from an initial eight - that Yeung had traded with would result in an unfair trial.
He said the defence did not say whether there could be witnesses who could give evidence about large-scale cash dealings in securities.
"One would expect that cash transactions involving tens of millions of dollars should be relatively hard to forget, especially when the defendant seems to be suggesting that there had been copious amounts of trading resulting in his not insignificant accumulation of wealth," Yau said.