Update | Auckland mayor still has questions to answer over sex scandal, says ex-lover Bevan Chuang
Grandfather of 32-year-old who had an affair with Auckland mayor was leading industrialist
Bevan Chuang Ka-Yan, the woman at the centre of a mayoral sex scandal in New Zealand, has talked for the first time about her roots in a prominent Hong Kong family - and revealed she still hasn't talked to her father about the affair.
Chuang's two-year relationship with Auckland mayor Len Brown, 57, was disclosed in October, sparking a public outcry and prompting an investigation into possible misuse of public money and resources by Brown to benefit his 32-year-old lover.
Speaking to the Sunday Morning Post yesterday, Chuang said her grandfather was the late philanthropist and industrialist Chuang Chung-wen , who founded Chuang's Holdings, now Chuang's Consortium, a listed developer with properties in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Malaysia, Mongolia and Taiwan. He died in 1993 aged 83.
Chuang's father is Andrew Chuang Siu-leung , 66, a former chairman of the operations review committee - the watchdog that monitors the work of the Independent Commission Against Corruption. She said she is in touch with him regularly. "I haven't talked to my dad about the affair; eventually, I will," she said.
The anthropology graduate was 15 years old when she moved to Auckland with her father, mother and younger sister.