The British Parliament will ask HSBC’s senior management to attend to provide oral testimony on HSBC’s freezing of Xu Zhifeng’s bank account. File photo and online photo
The former Democratic Party legislator Xu Zhifeng, who announced his exile, said earlier that the accounts he and his Family opened at HSBC were frozen, and his credit card account could not be used. Today, Xu Zhifeng said in his Facebook, HSBC CEO will be questioned by the British Parliament next Tuesday.
Xu Zhifeng said that the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament will hold a formal meeting next Tuesday, on HSBC freezing his bank accounts and other Hong Kong people, churches, organizations, HSBC senior management to attend to provide oral testimony, and to be questioned by members of Parliament. Those who will be questioned include Noel Quinn, the chief executive of HSBC Holdings, and Colin Bell, the group’s chief legal officer, who wrote to him earlier to “unpaint” the case.
Xu Zhifeng said that members of the Foreign Affairs Committee had contacted him earlier, and he had also provided the Committee with details of the cases in which his and his family’s accounts had been frozen, so that Members could grasp the specific details when questioning.
Xu Zhifeng in Hong Kong involved in nine charges, in early December last year under the name of official visits from Denmark to London, England, absconded on bail and then declared exile, but later found himself and his family at least five bank accounts were frozen. The police said, according to suspected violations of the “Hong Kong National Security Law” and money laundering direction, and found that the person involved is suspected of misappropriating funds obtained through online crowdfunding earlier, and the use of loved ones accounts to handle the money involved.
Subsequently, his family’s HSBC bank account was suddenly unfrozen, his own account was partially unfrozen, a report cited sources said that HSBC received a police notice on December 7, Xu Zhifeng’s Parents and his wife’s accounts were frozen, suspending account services, before only Xu Zhifeng’s personal account was affected. Xu Zhifeng replied to media inquiries, confirmed that temporarily found some of the family’s HSBC bank accounts were frozen again.
Mr. Hui stressed that any bank, business or institution that helps the Communist regime to suppress the freedom of Hong Kong people will have to pay a heavy price internationally, and he will do everything he can to make these institutions face the consequences.
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