Husband signed deal for Teresa Cheng’s luxury HK$62 million Repulse Bay flat with full knowledge of illegal structures
Under-fire justice chief is also suspected to have purchased flat as a first-time buyer – despite owning companies that had bought at least three other properties
Evidence has been uncovered indicating that Hong Kong’s scandal-plagued justice minister Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah bought a HK$62 million (US$8 million) luxury flat in Repulse Bay even though the deed specified that there were illegal structures on the property.
Cheng, the secretary for justice, is also suspected to have bought the flat last year as a first-time buyer, despite owning companies that bought at least three other properties in Tuen Mun and Sha Tin.
Land Registry records show that Cheng bought a third-floor flat in Block A of Sea Cliff Mansions on 19C Repulse Bay Road last September.
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The Post found that the sale and purchase agreement specified that the buyer, by signing the agreement, acknowledged that the property “contains illegal structures, alterations and unauthorised additions”.