The former chairman of Singapore's largest charity, who is involved in a scandal in which millions of dollars in donations were misused, was extradited from Hong Kong yesterday. a spokesman for Hong Kong's police said.
Richard Yong Kun Da, who chaired the National Kidney Foundation, came to Hong Kong in May with his wife On Shu Kio shortly after declaring bankruptcy in a civil lawsuit brought against the foundation's management.
The pair were arrested at a house in Stanley last month at the request of the Singapore government.
Yong, 65, agreed in a court hearing last month to be extradited. He was escorted by Singapore police back to his home country, the spokeswoman said.
He is wanted for failing to give up property after filing for bankruptcy and for leaving the country illegally.
The scandal exploded in July 2005 when the National Kidney Foundation sued Singapore Press Holdings over an article published in The Straits Times in 2004.
The article said a plumber had been asked to install an expensive German toilet bowl, a glass-panelled shower and a gold-plated tap worth more than HK$5,000 in the private office suite of the foundation's former chief executive, T.T. Durai, the scandal's central figure.