Betty Fung sick leave to end on Friday, but will she return to work?
It is not yet known if the Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs will return to work on Monday, as questions remain over conflict of interest claims
Betty Fung Ching Suk-yee, Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs, has been on leave since last Friday . On that day, she was seen leaving home carrying luggage, while not wearing her wedding ring.
A spokeswoman for the Home Affairs Bureau said on Thursday Fung was on sick leave and Deputy Secretary for Home Affairs Laurie Lo Chi-hong was undertaking her duties until Friday. .
A source familiar with the situation said the administration would need to handle the acting arrangement for Fung if the top official did not return to work on Monday as scheduled.
Wilson Fung Wing-yip, Betty Fung’s husband and executive director at the Hong Kong Airport Authority, admitted on Facebook the day after she went on leave that he had kept his wife in the dark about his “dealing” with Macau businesswoman Cheyenne Chan.
Chan, - a sister-in-law of Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho - is also the owner of the company Wiseson which exchanged two flats in Happy Valley for Betty Fung’s One Robinson Place property in Mid-Levels in late 2013.