The former Hong Kong home affairs secretary was convicted for paying bribes to the presidents of Chad and Uganda in a United Nations-linked conspiracy.

The 70-year-old former Home Affairs minister was swiftly ushered into a waiting sedan outside AsiaWorld-Expo after testing negative for Covid-19.

He flew first to Zurich, where he boarded a Swiss International Air Lines flight bound for the city.

The 70-year-old, who was jailed for 36 months and fined US$400,000 last year for bribery and money laundering, is also expected to be deported because his passport has expired.

Former home affairs secretary, who is serving three years in US prison for bribery, tried to set up meeting between Ugandan Sam Kutesa and Xi, though Kutesa did not ultimately meet Chinese president on visit to Beijing.

Ex-home affairs chief will be allowed to serve another six months at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Centre to prepare for his appeal, before moving to an out-of-town prison.

Ho was given credit for time already served so will spend an additional 20 months behind bars, and must pay a US$400,000 fine.

Hong Kong’s disgraced former home affairs minister compares himself to Huawei boss Sabrina Meng and says charges against him were political, but prosecutors say he has shown no remorse and want him jailed for five years .

Defence asks for Ho’s release on 16 months’ time served and submits tearful letters in his support. Sentence to be handed down March 25.

Will trade war tensions be exacerbated by revelations over how China conducts business in Africa? Not necessarily, say the experts.

Farhan Haq, spokesman for António Guterres, tells the Post that, since 2016, General Assembly presidents have had to make a pledge of transparency. Three former presidents of the General Assembly were named in the recent bribery trial of Patrick Ho.

Disgraced former Hong Kong minister discussed ambition to influence politics in United States with boss of Chinese oil group after GOP swept to power in 2014 midterm elections.

The conviction of former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho in a New York court and detention of Huawei’s chief financial officer, Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, in Canada have demonstrated the global reach of US law enforcement.

Nine women and three men spent seven days in a New York courtroom before finding Ho guilty of seven of eight counts of bribery and money laundering

Many remember Ho, who went to the US to study music but became a prominent eye surgeon instead, picking an ominous Kau Chim fortune stick during Lunar New Year 2003, the year of Sars.

The former Hong Kong minister was found guilty by a federal court of offering millions of dollars in bribes to African officials and now faces jail time in the United States.

Judge Loretta Preska gives detailed direction to nine women and three men who will decide fate of former Hong Kong minister.

Prosecutors said Patrick Ho’s “classic” use of bribery as he worked for oil firm CEFC China Energy was “not how legitimate business is done”. But Ho’s defence called the prosecution “deeply flawed” and hammered the credibility of a star prosecution witness.

Veteran criminal lawyer says odds are against Ho given the large amount of evidence against him.

Former Senegalese foreign minister says he regrets making claims about nation’s diplomatic recognition of Beijing in 2005, during third day of testimony in New York.

Defendant also apologised to President Idriss Deby, who felt insulted and disrespected after finding money in boxes from him and CEFC China Energy representatives.

Former Senegalese foreign minister Cheikh Gadio was arrested at same time as Ho but had charges dropped after he agreed to testify for US government

Ho stands accused of bribing African officials to bag oil development rights for a Shanghai-based energy group.