Will Leung Chun-ying be next in line for prosecution in Hong Kong?
The anti-graft watchdog has been investigating the chief executive’s receipt of HK$50 million from an Australian firm for the past two and a half years
Investigations have been ongoing over incumbent Leung Chun-ying’s decision not to declare his HK$50 million deal with Australian engineering firm UGL, part of which he received when he was chief executive.
Former top prosecutor Grenville Cross compared Tsang’s case to the slow progress of the Leung investigation led by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).
“The most striking similarity between the two cases is the astonishing length of time taken on each,” he said. “The UGL case has now been with the ICAC for two years five months without any conclusion, and may yet catch up with the three years eight months taken in the Tsang case.”
The graft-buster launched its investigation into Leung in 2014 after it was revealed that the chief executive did not declare to the Executive Council that he received HK$50 million from UGL in 2012 and 2013.