Hong Kong Legco president broke rules on declaring interests, committee finds
Andrew Leung escapes punishment over non-disclosure of half a share in company, because there was no conflict with his role
Legislative Council president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen broke the rules on declarations of interest by failing to disclose his stake in a company for the past eight years as a lawmaker until media reports surfaced on the matter, a committee has ruled.
But the Legco committee on members’ interests did not recommend any penalty for Leung, who was elected in 2004.
“The committee feels that there is no information to suggest Leung was deliberate in the breach, or there is any conflict of interest with his role as a lawmaker,” committee chairman Yiu Si-wing said on Wednesday morning, informing the council of the findings.
The committee started an inquiry after pan-democratic legislator Kenneth Leung complained in November, citing news reports that alleged the Legco president had not declared stakes in two companies.
Andrew Leung told the committee that he had held half a share in a company called SHL, which served European clients of his family’s clothing business.