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Rafael Huii

Rafael Hui Si-Yan, born in 1948, is a former Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong and a former career civil servant. Hui was arrested in March 2012 by the Independent Commission Against Corruption on suspicion of corruption. The trial of Hui, along with Sun Hung Kai Properties co-chairmen Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong and Raymond Kwok Ping-luen, which opened in early June 2014, was called the most high-profile corruption trial in the history of the Hong Kong SAR.

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Disgraced Hong Kong property tycoon Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong is returning to his family business empire, nine months after completing a five-year jail term for a bribery scandal involving one of the city’s highest public officials.

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Hui was sentenced to 7½ years in prison after being found guilty of five charges of bribery and misconduct in 2014, but is being freed two years ahead of his term for his good behaviour.

Ex-stock exchange executive Francis Kwan, convicted of handling more than HK$11 million in bribes to city’s former No 2 official, has sentence reduced for good behaviour.

The former Hong Kong stock exchange official had been convicted of handling more than HK$11.18 million in bribes to the city’s former chief secretary.

Appeal lawyers in Hong Kong's highest-profile corruption case continued yesterday to tear into the prosecution's lack of evidence to show what exactly a former No 2 official did to favour Sun Hung Kai Properties in return for bribes running into the millions.

Former Hong Kong government No 2 Rafael Hui Si-yan and property tycoon Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong will start a week-long appeal today against graft convictions involving millions of dollars in "sweetener payments".