Developers' fine 'futile'

PUNISHMENT should be stepped up for people convicted of illegally resuming flats for redevelopment, United Democrat legislator James To Kun-sun said.

Mr To said the maximum penalty was now a $500,000 fine and although the Government had planned to increase the penalty to $1 million, a fine was not an effective deterrent.

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