‘Writer, director and actor?’: Hong Kong leader doubles down on attack against pan-democrat in UGL probe
Chief executive questions if lawmaker Kenneth Leung is orchestrating a storyline with a political agenda
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying fired yet another broadside at an opposition lawmaker on Sunday, saying that Kenneth Leung’s role in a probe into the UGL saga involving his financial dealings was “an example of how Hong Kong’s politics have deteriorated extremely”.
It was the seventh time in a week that Leung Chun-ying, whose five-year term will end in 41 days on June 30, had referred to the Legislative Council select committee’s investigation into him.
The storm erupted after it was revealed last Monday that he had discreetly engaged a pro-establishment lawmaker to amend a document on the scope and direction of the probe.
The panel was set up last year at the behest of pan-democrats after it emerged that Leung Chun-ying had received HK$50 million following UGL’s 2011 purchase of DTZ, an insolvent property company of which he was a director. Leung received the payment after his election but he did not declare it to his cabinet.
Writing on his official blog, Leung Chun-ying asked Kenneth Leung a series of 18 questions regarding the payment.