Hong Kong businessman and former Birmingham City Football Club chief Carson Yeung injured in hotel attack
- Carson Yeung sustains head injuries after two unidentified men hit him with glasses following an argument pertaining to investment matters
- The attack took place in the lobby of the Park Lane hotel in Causeway Bay
Police are searching for two men who attacked Hong Kong businessman and former Birmingham City Football Club boss Carson Yeung Ka-sing in a Hong Kong hotel after an argument pertaining to investment matters.
Yeung, 60, sustained head injuries when the two men struck him with glasses and their bare hands in the lobby of the Park Lane hotel on Gloucester Road in Causeway Bay at about 6pm on Tuesday, a police source said. The pair fled the scene after the assault.
Hotel staff called an ambulance, which took Yeung to Ruttonjee Hospital.
The source said the hairdresser-turned-businessman had refused to give any statement, or provide details of the suspects.
Former Birmingham City chairman Carson Yeung to serve time after losing final appeal
Investigators are looking for two men in their 50s who were wearing khaki and black tops, respectively.
Yeung, who was relatively unknown before his involvement in British soccer, took over Birmingham City in 2009 for £81 million (US$108.3 million).
However, he quit all of his management posts related to Birmingham City in February of 2014, a month before being sentenced to six years in prison for laundering more than HK$700 million (US$90.3 million) before becoming the boss of the club.
The club was later sold to Hong Kong’s “King of Penny Stocks”, Paul Suen Cho-hung.
Yeung finished serving his sentence last year.
