Hong Kong justice chief Teresa Cheng caught up in controversy for not declaring husband’s luxury Mid-Levels properties
- Husband Otto Poon bought flat on Albany Road for HK$89.9 million and took over sole directorship of private firm that owns duplux last year
- Opposition camp accuses her of double standards as she registered another house solely owned by Poon
Hong Kong’s justice minister is caught up in another controversy, this time over a declaration of interest involving her husband’s luxury Mid-Levels properties.
The secretary for justice’s decision to not disclose some of her husband’s properties also contrasted with the views of a fellow Executive Council member, who said politicians had to go the extra mile and be transparent about their spouses’ interests.
Cheng’s husband, veteran engineer Otto Poon Lok-to, bought two properties late last year. It also emerged that he could have saved more than HK$10 million (US$1.3 million) worth of stamp duty on one of the flats.
A land search by the Post confirmed that Poon, a former president of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, bought a flat on Albany Road in Mid-Levels in his own name for HK$89.9 million in October 2018.