A former warrant trader accused of being part of a derivatives market manipulation racket has accused two more ICAC officers of coaching him on how to answer questions.
Cheung Ching-ho, 39, was among five people arrested by the Independent Commission Against Corruption in 2008 for trying to manipulate the derivatives market and laundering more than HK$100 million the alleged scam generated.
He was originally offered immunity from prosecution but later refused to testify and was charged with conspiracy to defraud. Cheung's lawyers are trying to get the proceedings stayed on the grounds that he will not get a fair trial.
Cheung has already accused three ICAC officers of coaching him to be a witness. They are facing charges of perverting the course of justice.
Yesterday, the ex-warrants trader told the District Court another two officers - identified as 'Lee sir' and 'Lai sir' - coached him before he gave answers in two video testimonies taken at the ICAC on May 28, 2008, the day he was arrested.
'Before the videotaping, they told me the questions they would be asking,' he said. 'They didn't teach me to say things in the middle of the video-taking, but before the video was switched on, they told me what to say ... what they wanted me to admit ... they taught me the general direction of my answers.'
But prosecuting counsel Joseph Tse denied Lee and Lai had talked about how to give answers in the testimony. 'It's not like Ben and Kevin, who sat down and went through specific details like horse gambling, identification of persons and how to explain your assets,' he said.
