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Letters | What do Hong Kong massage parlour and hotpot scandals indicate?
- Two incidents illustrating security officials’ lack of good professional judgment only came to light because of separate police actions
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I commend the letter “Why questions still linger over hotpot dinner” (July 15) and wish to add comment.
Are our security officials just unlucky or have they become so arrogant that they are unconcerned about long-established civil service ethics and public opinion?
In May, the public became aware that a senior national security officer had some time earlier been caught in a police raid on an unlicensed massage parlour.
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Hong Kong police investigate top national security officer caught in massage parlour raid
Hong Kong police investigate top national security officer caught in massage parlour raid
Now in July, news breaks that the director of Immigration, the Customs and Excise commissioner and the undersecretary for Security attended a lavish dinner in a private Wan Chai club in March, where one of the guests was an executive of a mainland Chinese real estate giant.
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The only reason that this event became public news is due to a police investigation into an allegation of attempted rape made by a guest against another attendee at this party (not one of the three officials).
Thus, both incidents illustrating security officials’ lack of good professional judgment only came to light because of separate police actions.
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Is the implication then that such hobnobbing and indiscretions are not one-off events, but perhaps now a norm for senior officials?
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