Jimmy Lai Chee-ying says he 'hasn't given one cent' to Occupy Central organisers

Apple Daily boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying said the impending talks between student leaders and the government would re-energise the democracy movement, even though the "dialogue definitely will give us disappointments and broken promises".

Lai spoke after a new batch of his confidential documents were leaked to the media on Monday - the third such disclosure since July. The documents suggested that Lai had sponsored Occupy.

Lai said that while he had donated large sums of money to politicians in the pro-democracy camp, he had not given a cent to the co-founders of Occupy Central. His newspaper, though, had given the movement discounts for advertisements.

"I haven't convened meetings with any of the Occupy leaders," Lai told the South China Morning Post on Tuesday. "I've never talked to them; not even [co-founder] Benny Tai. They don't need to talk to me because I'm not part of the leadership."

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