The Hong Kong media has recently exposed the incident of the Hong Kong Police Force’s National Security Division Commissioner Choi Chin-pang patronizing an unlicensed massage parlor, which has aroused public concern. Police Organized Crime and Triad Investigation Bureau recently held a press conference to explain the progress of the investigation of the case, confirmed that the massage parlors are suspected of prostitution, the police law enforcement Choi Chin-pang was also in the massage parlors, but for the time being, he was not found to be involved in immoral and illegal behavior.
On May 18, 2021, the Hong Kong Organized Crime and Triad Investigation Bureau held a press conference, Chief Superintendent of Police Wong Wai briefed the progress of the investigation of the case of the Hong Kong Police Force’s National Security Division Commissioner Choi Chin-pang patronizing an unlicensed massage parlor. (You Tube video screenshot)
On Tuesday (18), the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force held a press conference to inform the progress of the investigation into the case of an unlicensed massage parlor suspected of operating prostitution activities involving Choi Chin-pang.
According to the Hong Kong Standpoint News Network, Wong Wai, who is the Chief Superintendent of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau of Investigation, informed that the police found in an unlicensed massage parlor in Wanchai during an inspection operation in late March this year, someone was suspected of prostitution activities. The police have arrested six female suspects involved in the case. During the license check operation, police found that Choi Chin-pang, who is the head of the National Security Division of the Hong Kong Police Force, was also in the massage parlor, but after preliminary investigation, “Choi Chin-pang was not found to be involved in immoral or illegal acts.” The case has been referred to the Department of Justice, is waiting for its further instructions.
A reporter at the press conference asked: the case occurred at the end of March, why only announced so far?
Huang Wei said that the police need time to conduct a “multi-angle and all-round” investigation, before the detailed investigation is not appropriate to disclose the case. He admitted that the police did not arrest Choi Chin Pang, because patronage of unlicensed massage parlors in Hong Kong is not illegal.
Wong Wai refused to disclose how many times Tsai Chin Pang patronized the massage parlor, but claimed that this issue also belongs to the direction of the police investigation, but it is not appropriate to disclose details. He also stressed that the police have referred the case to the Department of Justice for consideration.
According to the Hong Kong Apple Daily, a media reporter at the conference site raised the news that someone near the place of the crime to provide Vietnamese women for prostitution, and Cai is not the first time to patronize the place, questioning what Cai was actually doing at the scene? Is it a case involving police officers harboring the place?
Huang Wei in response, the issue of whether there are Vietnamese women in prostitution evaded, only to emphasize that the six women involved in the massage parlor arrested in the case have a Hong Kong identity card.
The police’s notification has aroused public discontent in Hong Kong, the public questioned the police “own people investigating their own people”, there are suspicions of favoritism and harboring. Some netizens sarcastically said that the police should be more shameless like the mainland public security officials, saying that Cai was going undercover to crack down on sex services.
Later, a police spokesman came out to the media to clarify that the police only initially did not find Cai Zhanpeng involved in “illegal” and “immoral behavior”, not to make a definitive conclusion on the case. As for whether Choi was involved in violations, the police will follow the usual procedures of the so-called “disciplinary investigation” to follow up on whether the relevant personnel violated the law.
On May 11, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post was the first to quote an anonymous “senior police officer” news broke the news that at the end of March this year, Choi Chin-pang in patronizing an unlicensed massage parlor, was discovered by the police officers to check the license, because Choi’s identity is special, the incident alarmed the highest level of the police force, Choi Chin-pang was then asked to leave for a month pending investigation.
On May 12, Hong Kong Police Commissioner Tang Ping-keung admitted in response to Hong Kong media inquiries that Choi Chin-pang was involved in misconduct and had been referred to the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau of Investigation for investigation. When pressed repeatedly by media reporters about the specific date and location of the incident and whether Tsoi was involved in sex services and other details, Deng Bingqiang declined to disclose relevant details on the grounds that the case was still under investigation.
Subsequently, a number of Hong Kong media to follow up on the report that Cai involved in the case of unlicensed massage store is located on the first floor of the building in Wanchai Tamsin Road, the name is VIET SPA, now the massage store sign has been removed.
For Choi Chin-pang patronage of unlicensed massage store incident, the Hong Kong Democratic Party Chairman Luo Jianxi questioned the police selective disclosure of the incident, it is difficult to convince. He said that the police’s version of the incident seems to indicate that “there is prostitution in the massage parlor, but it has nothing to do with Tsai Chin-pang”, which makes people feel suspicious. He asked, “Since Tsai Chin-peng is a decent man, and the incident does not involve sensitive information such as national security, why can’t they really open up? (should) disclose the details of the whole thing.”
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