New | I wasn’t abducted by mainland agents … Lam Wing-kee has it wrong, Lee Po insists
Bookseller at heart of saga also claims he never gave customer lists to mainland authorities
In a dramatic twist, Lee Po, the man at the heart of the missing booksellers saga hit back on Friday at claims made by an associate that he had been kidnapped and had turned over customer lists to mainland authorities.
“Originally, I had no plans to say anything more,” Lee wrote on his Facebook page on Friday. “But because Lam Wing-kee made a few remarks, I just had to make some clarifications.”
Lee said he had “never used the computer at Causeway Bay Books” and had “never printed out any lists of customers, much less passing any lists to mainland police”.
He further stated that, when he met Lam on Thursday, he never mentioned how he ended up in the mainland from Hong Kong.
“I did not talk about how I returned to the mainland”
“When I was chatting with Lam Wing-kee, I did not talk about how I returned to the mainland, and so I didn’t say I went to the mainland involuntarily or anything similar to that,” he said. “During my time there, I was assisting with the investigation by Ningbo’s public security bureau. I have never heard of the central investigation team.”