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Carson Yeung
Hong Kong

Carson Yeung's access to father's account disputed in court

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Carson Yeung Ka-sing. Photo: Edward Wong
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A prosecutor has challenged an assertion that Birmingham Football Club boss Carson Yeung Ka-sing had not been authorised to operate his father's securities trading account.

Lippo Securities former associate director Jackie Pan Chik, giving evidence in Yeung's HK$721 million money-laundering trial, said on Monday the businessman, 52, was never authorised by his father, Yeung Chung, to manage the account.

But prosecutor John Reading SC put to Pan a statement he made to the Securities and Futures Commission in 2002.

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Reading told the District Court yesterday that Yeung Chung "also gave oral authorisation to K.S. Yeung to place orders on his behalf".

Yeung is accused of knowingly dealing in ill-gotten gains involving HK$721 million and five bank accounts from January 2001 to December 2007.

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On Monday, Pan said "yes" when defence lawyer Graham Harris SC put it to him that no one, including the younger Yeung, could operate Yeung Chung's account unless he was so authorised.

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