A HONG KONG lawyer who drained $17 million from his clients' account, flew to Canada and disappeared, has been placed on the Interpol Red Notice list.
But police fear solicitor Michael Kan Chi-ho, sought under another name on fraud charges in Taiwan, may be using a false passport.
The top-priority Interpol code asks international law enforcers to locate and trace solicitor Kan, 40, with a view to extradition.
Commercial Crime Bureau officers have been searching for Kan since he fled Hong Kong in August last year, after clearing out papers from his Mongkok offices of Michael Kan and Co Solicitors.
Kan, the estranged brother of Champion Technology chairman Paul Kan Man-lok and Senior Crown Counsel Mary Kan Ma-lai, fled the territory with his Taiwanese wife and six-year-old daughter on the Liberation Day public holiday.
He left confused, unpaid staff and angry clients who had paid deposits into the lawyer's company and personal bank accounts. Some clients lost millions of dollars and at least one arrived in court for trial to find himself unrepresented.
Interpol Senior Inspector Alex Threadgill said the Red Notice was the 'most serious' of the codes. It is the only one which asks other countries to prepare for extradition.
