Hong Kong singer and movie star Max Mok Siu-chung was arrested for allegedly taking drugs in Beijing on Friday. Beijing police confirmed the arrest yesterday, but refused to disclose what drugs were allegedly in his possessions.
Mok was arrested with several other people in the Chaoyang district of the capital after officers received tip-offs, mainland police said.
They did not say what Mok and the others were doing.
Mok was not expected to be sent to a compulsory treatment centre because it was his first arrest for drugs, the Beijing police said.
The 50-year-old actor and singer is known for his work in Last Eunuch in China in 1988, and his role as Leung Foon, a student of famed kung fu master Wong Fei-hung, in Once Upon a Time in China in the early 1990s. Mok has acted in some 20 movies and also starred in popular television dramas. He released five Putonghua and Cantonese albums in the 1990s. He is preparing for a Hong Kong film production in August. Mok has an 11-year-old son with actress Catherine Hung Yan, but they are not married.
Several Hong Kong stars have been caught in drug-related controversies in recent years. Model Rosemary Vandenbroucke was arrested in the United States last year for possessing Ecstasy and crashing her car. She was fined US$1,000 for obstructing or delaying a police officer, after the drug and careless driving charges were dropped. She was also fined US$1,400 for careless driving.
