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https://scmp.com/article/88873/lawyer-clients-cash-go-missing

Lawyer, clients' cash go missing

MISSING Mongkok solicitor Michael Kan Chi-ho used Supreme Court documents to change his name and appeared to have cleared photographs and personal effects from his home and office before disappearing, police investigators said yesterday.

The solicitor told colleagues he was the brother of Champion Technology chairman Paul Kan Man-lok and senior crown counsel Mary Kan Ma-lai, but had little contact with the pair.

Champion boss Mr Kan told the Sunday Morning Post yesterday he and his sister were unsure whether the missing man was their brother.

'We have not seen him for over 10 years,' Mr Kan said.

'Only last year he came to Hong Kong. He was overseas; he had emigrated.

'We're all grown up and it's Hong Kong - everybody's too busy. We probably saw him for one day . . . he didn't have very much to do with us.

'All I can tell you is that this particular brother tends to do his own thing. The name is changed, but I do have a brother who was a solicitor, so I gather it must be him.' Commercial Crime Bureau investigator Inspector Tse Ka-lun said it was proving difficult to unravel the private life of Michael Kan.

'We're making some progress but the case is quite complex. We're still trying to locate . . . his clients,' Inspector Tse said.

'Michael Kan changed his name [to Michael Kan] last year and obviously he didn't tell Paul Kan Man-lok.

'I think by now he would realise his little brother has changed his name. We have some certificates from the Supreme Court saying Michael Kan changed his name last year . . . English name and Chinese name.' Mr Kan returned to Hong Kong from overseas last year, but police have uncovered just one five-year-old photograph of him and few personal details.