Former Hong Kong chief executive CY Leung threatens to launch legal action in the UK against city lawmaker
Leung Chun-ying, after being reported to Britain’s National Crime Agency over a HK$50 million payment, claimed he would commission a lawyer to look at bringing a case against Democratic Party lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting
Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying has threatened to launch a crowdfunding campaign to finance legal action in Britain against an opposition lawmaker from the city.
His comments on Tuesday came after the legislator in question used the same fundraising strategy in an unsuccessful bid to have Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) investigate a HK$50 million (US$6.37 million) payment made to Leung by Australian engineering firm UGL during his term of office.
A defiant Leung claimed he would commission a British lawyer to study the idea of bringing a case against Democratic Party lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting.
Lam last November reported Leung’s UGL deal to the crime agency, arguing British law enforcement had the authority to investigate Leung, who was once director of British firm DTZ before UGL acquired it.
Leung said in a Facebook post on Tuesday: “Lam and others have used crowdfunded money (other people’s money) to harass me, so I would not preclude using the [same tactic] … against them. This is only fair and square.