The only crime was possibly lying (or not noticing factual inaccuracies) on the mortgage documents.Original Post Deleted
Last edited by East_coast; 07-02-2018 at 04:09 PM.
Back in the news as the trial gets started.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...-justice-chiefWest Kowloon Court heard that the Buildings Department inspected Otto Poon Lok-to’s Villa de Mer property in Tuen Mun on January 9, 2018, and found a garden pool that was not on the approved building plans or the Lands Department’s aerial photographs taken on April 2, 2017.
Poon, a senior member of the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers, pleaded not guilty in January to knowingly commencing or carrying out building works without obtaining approval from authorities and consent in writing.
The offence carries a maximum sentence of a HK$400,000 fine and two years in prison under the Buildings Ordinance. Poon is the husband of Hong Kong’s justice chief Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah.
Otto Poon deserves a nice prison sentence, these spouses of policitians or policitians are such a hypocritical bunch, they believe they are above the law
Verdict: $20K fine for "bag of water placed in the garden". The bag of water has been dismantled.
But Dr James Lau Chi-wang, a structural and geotechnical engineer for the defence, countered that the pool was neither a building nor structure. “It’s just a bag of water placed in the garden,” Lau testified last month.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...ce-chief-found