After being extradited from the US, Helen Chung faces nine fraud charges relating to the sale of a $5.2 million flat
Disgraced former Hong Kong solicitor and failed Legco candidate Helen Chung Yee-fong is due to arrive in Hong Kong this morning after extradition from the United States to face nine fraud charges, following a two-year battle to bring her to justice.
Chung, remembered in the city as the 'Lady Lawyer' because of her song-and-dance election campaigns, was due to arrive at Chek Lap Kok at 7.45am after her overnight journey which began in a prison cell in New Jersey, a police source said last night.
The controversial former lawyer actively campaigned against what she termed her 'wrongful detention' in the US, saying she was the victim of a malicious prosecution by powerful Hong Kong officials and politicians.
She told reporters in the US she was the 'victim of a political vendetta'.
However the Hong Kong police officer responsible for securing her extradition, Detective Senior Inspector Tobi Lothian of the Commercial Crime Bureau, yesterday dismissed the allegations as 'unfounded'.
He said that she was being treated 'no differently' than any other suspect.