An African politician's wife said to have claimed she was wrongly branded as a bankrupt in a case of mistaken identity lied about herself, a court heard yesterday.
Wan Soi-fan, 49, the wife of Dr Vunduawe-te-Pemako - the parliamentary president in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) and a former top aide to the late Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko - is president of her own company, the Sabina Group, in Garden Road, Admiralty.
She is charged with one count of attempting to mislead an officer of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, one of conspiracy to use another person's identity card and four of perjury. No pleas were entered at Eastern Court.
Ian McWalters, prosecuting for the ICAC, alleged that Wan, also known as Zhang Sabine Soi-fan, Zhang Sabina Soi-fan and Sabina Wan Soi-fan, had on April 16 last year attempted to mislead an ICAC officer by making a false statement that she was not the bankrupt person, Sabina Wan Soi-fan, in High Court bankruptcy proceedings.
She is also accused of using someone else's identity card in the name of Wan Soi-fan.
In addition, she is accused of falsely swearing as a witness in proceedings in the Court of First Instance between November 7, 1998, and May 14 last year that she was Zhang Sabine Soi-fan, instead of Sabina Wan Soi-fan, who was the respondent in the case.