{"id":295269,"date":"2017-02-17T15:17:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=295269"},"modified":"2017-02-17T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:17:03","slug":"hong-kong-ex-leader-found-guilty-of-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=295269","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong ex-leader found guilty of misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-body\">\n<div class=\"story-body__inner\">\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Former Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang has been found guilty of misconduct in office, in a case related to his use of a luxury flat in China.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tsang, who led Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012, had faced three charges of misconduct and bribery.<\/p>\n<p>He was cleared of a second count of misconduct and the jury failed to reach a verdict on a third charge of accepting an advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tsang is the most senior Hong Kong official to face a corruption trial.<\/p>\n<p>The case has worried a territory that prides itself on its relatively clean reputation.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Designer flat<\/h2>\n<p>The charges, which each carried a maximum of seven years in prison, related to events which took place near the end of his term between 2010 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors accused Mr Tsang of engaging in a number of conflicts of interest without declaring them, including renting a luxury flat in mainland China from the shareholder of a broadcast company, Wave Media, whose license applications he approved.<\/p>\n<p>They alleged the flat was redecorated for free for him and that he later nominated the interior designer for an honour.<\/p>\n<p>The jury, which deliberated for two days, found him guilty of misconduct over his failure to disclose the lease of the flat, but dismissed the charge related to the designer.<\/p>\n<p>It did not reach a verdict on whether he accepted a bribe in the form of the refurbishment. Sentencing will take place on Monday, AFP reported.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tsang, 72, has previously insisted his conscience is clear.<\/p>\n<p>A career civil servant, he rose through the ranks to become Hong Kong&#8217;s second chief executive, following Tung Chee-hwa.<\/p>\n<p>His deputy, former Chief Secretary Rafael Hui, was jailed for accepting bribes from a property tycoon in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tags-container\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tags-container\">&#8211;<\/div>\n<div class=\"tags-container\">Source: BBC<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang has been found guilty of misconduct in office, in a case related to his use of a luxury flat in China. Mr Tsang, who led Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012, had faced three charges of misconduct and bribery. He was cleared of a second count of misconduct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[4196,3593,673,4197],"class_list":["post-295269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-asian-business","tag-bribery-allegation","tag-businesses","tag-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}