Hong Kong chief executive denies pressuring airport staff to break security rules over his daughter’s left-behind luggage
Baggage was allegedly delivered to CY Leung’s younger daughter from non-restricted to closed zone in airport under ‘special arrangement’
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying on Thursday denied he had exerted pressure on airport staff to bypass security rules to deliver a piece of left luggage to his younger daughter, who was at the boarding gate at the time.
But questions remain as to whose idea it was to deliver the luggage from a non-restricted area to a closed-off zone so that Leung Chung-yan, 23, could board her Cathay Pacific flight to San Francisco on time last month.
The Post has also learned that a junior staff member of aviation security firm Avseco, who first leaked the accusations to a Chinese-language newspaper, lost his job after the saga.
Avseco could not be reached for comment, but the Airport Authority said there was no breach of security protocol by its staff.
The Apple Daily reported that the chief executive had personally asked over the phone that Cathay staff help his daughter who had left a piece of luggage outside the restricted area when she was at the boarding gate for a flight to San Francisco on March 28.
A senior staff member from the Airport Authority reportedly arrived later at the scene and had a colleague deliver the luggage to her directly to the restricted area under a “special arrangement”.
The newspaper also published an internal Cathay document purportedly detailing the incident. But the document made no mention of the phone conversations between the chief executive and Cathay staff.