Former Hong Kong chief secretary says he accepted secret payoff from Beijing


  • World
  • Tuesday, 23 Sep 2014

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A former top Hong Kong civil servant told a court on Tuesday that he had received a secret payment of HK$11 million (£866,046) "from Beijing" in 2007 through a businessman intermediary, local media reported.

Hong Kong's former chief secretary, Rafael Hui, was testifying in one of the financial hub's largest corruption trials, charged with accepting "concealed and disguised" payments from property tycoons Thomas and Raymond Kwok, the billionaire co-chairmen of Asia's largest developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd, seeking government favour.

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