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Ousted Hong Kong lawmaker ‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung in Legco legal action for full salary and expenses totalling HK$2.75 million after he ignored deal
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The Hong Kong legislature has decided to take legal action against ousted lawmaker “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung to recover his full salary and expenses totalling HK$2.75 million (US$350,300) after he ignored an earlier compromise to return part of the sum.
The latest development came almost a month after Legislative Council president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen floated a deal that would not require four ousted pro-democracy lawmakers to pay back their full salaries if they agreed to return a smaller amount of operating funds or expenses prepaid to them and items such as laptops. Their salaries, staff wages and prepaid expenses ranged from HK$2.7 million to HK$3.1 million for eight months.
Leung, Lau Siu-lai, Nathan Law Kwun-chung and Edward Yiu Chung-yim were unseated last year following a legal bid by local officials after a ruling by Beijing that they had taken their oaths of office improperly.
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Andrew Leung said the Legco Commission, responsible for the body’s administrative matters, had decided to take Leung to court after a meeting on Monday.
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“The decision is very simple. We offered a solution to settle, and we gave a deadline,” he said, adding that the ousted lawmaker “did not even respond” and that it was “up to the commission to decide what to do next”.
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