Website connected to Chinese tabloid runs interview with Hongkonger it claims was detained on Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge
- Man says he was released on bail and praises mainland officers for being polite to him
- But website says man was surnamed Chan, aged 49, and Hongkonger stopped was Chung Sun-ming, aged 53
A Hongkonger detained on suspicion of smuggling while travelling on the mega bridge to Macau has said in an interview he was released on bail because he had cancer, and praised mainland officers for being polite to him.
But the Post could not independently verify if the man interviewed was Chung Sun-ming, 53, who was held on December 13 by Zhuhai police and customs, and accused of smuggling mobile phones in August 2012.
The interview was published in Huanqiu, a website run by Global Times, a tabloid affiliated with the Communist Party-run People’s Daily, and Huanqiu said the man was surnamed Chan, 49.
He was reportedly detained on December 14, and was interviewed in a garden in Zhuhai on Thursday.
“My surname is Chan, I am a Hong Kong resident. After lunch on December 14, I was travelling to Macau to go gambling,” the man said.
“After passing through the Hong Kong checkpoint, I arrived at the artificial island for security check. But I could not get through and was caught by mainland [police] officers.”
