Senior Hong Kong civil servant accused of conflict of interest over property sale
ICAC to decide within days whether to launch probe involving Home Affairs official Betty Fung Ching Suk-yee following complaint by radical democrats
Hong Kong’s graftbuster is to decide on Tuesday at the earliest if it will launch an investigation into conflict-of-interest accusations against a top Home Affairs Bureau civil servant.
Yesterday, about 10 members of the League of Social Democrats protested outside the Independent Commission Against Corruption, chanting that it was “shameful” for Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs Betty Fung Ching Suk-yee to be involved in conflict-of-interest accusations.
The league’s chairman Avery Ng Man-yuen filed a complaint at the ICAC afterwards. He was told the graftbuster would decide on Tuesday at the earliest if it would look into the accusations.
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Ng filed the complaint yesterday after news portal HK01 on Friday made the accusations, which Fung dismissed as untrue.
The portal reported that, in 2013, Fung signed an agreement with a company run by Cheyenne Chan.
Under the agreement, Fung swapped her One Robinson Place property in Mid-Levels for the company’s two properties in Happy Valley. Fung was to pay Chan’s company HK$6.5 million.
Chan is a shareholder of another company, Sky Shuttle, a commercial helicopter operator.
Fung’s husband, Wilson Fung Wing-yip, was a civil servant in charge of aviation affairs from 2003 to 2006. He worked at the Economic Development and Labour Bureau, which later split into the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau and the Labour and Welfare Bureau.
