A notorious conman-turned-police-informer is fighting to get back $100,000 seized when he was accused of jumping bail.
Leung Chiu-tin, 34, is said to have breached his bail conditions by going on the run in China. But he claims he went to the mainland to act as an agent for the police and told a magistrate he was in jail 'at the material time'.
Leung hit the headlines when it emerged that Chief Secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang had tried to protect him by recommending that details of his activities as an informer remain secret.
He is serving a jail term for swindling 20 women out of $5.5 million.
Magistrate Patrick Li Hon-leung ordered that the bail money be seized after being told by the police in September 1995 that Leung had failed to comply with his bail conditions and had been missing for six months.
On January 8 this year, after Leung had been re-arrested and sentenced, he asked the magistrate to reconsider the matter and give him the money back. But Mr Li rejected his bid.
