Hong Kong restaurant worker found guilty of threatening to release sex tapes unless ex-lover gave her HK$500,000
- Senior executive of Hong Kong restaurant chain ended affair with 32-year-old for fear relationship would be exposed
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A 32-year-old woman has been convicted of blackmail over an attempt to extort HK$500,000 (US$64,000) from a senior executive of a Hong Kong restaurant chain with sex tapes.
Wong Sa-sa, a former restaurant worker, was found to have harassed the high-ranking figure with dozens of intimidating text messages over a 27-day period in September and October last year in a bid to coerce the married man into paying her money in exchange for keeping his infidelity a secret.
The District Court trial heard that Wong started an extramarital relationship with the senior executive in early 2021 because she became unsatisfied with her own marriage.
The complainant, who was granted anonymity by the court, was described as a “fairly well-known” individual in the catering industry with 40 years of experience, who was affiliated with a local restaurant chain “of considerable scale”.
The court heard the pair became lovers in January and had sex for the first time in a hotel in February. They had intercourse on five more occasions, until the married man began distancing himself from Wong in July fearing that his affair would be exposed.
Wong started bombarding him with WhatsApp messages in August, before she requested money to keep her mouth shut.
Between September 10 and October 6, Wong was said to have sent at least 13 intimidating messages, in which she attempted to extort HK$150,000 to HK$500,000 from the senior executive by threatening to leak pictures and footage of the two sharing a bed.