Hong Kong Democratic Party former legislator Xu Zhifeng announced that he is going into exile overseas, the news said that the police may consult the Department of Justice to decide whether to issue a warrant, the police commissioner Tang Bingqiang said that he does not rule out new charges against him. The police said that the police will not rule out the possibility of a new charge against him.
The police responded to media inquiries on Sunday evening, pointing out that Koh is suspected of embezzling and using the accounts of his relatives to handle crowdfunding, as well as colluding with foreign powers to endanger national security, with a total of about 850,000 yuan frozen.
Xu Zhifeng earlier on social networking sites criticized the police, the bank account was frozen by the regime to economic pressure for political retaliation, and to suppress his family by the law of guilt by association; also pointed out that last year issued on the private prosecution of crowdfunding has been deposited in the lawyer’s office account, the audit report has been made public, has nothing to do with his account.
The company’s website is a good place to start. The police cannot freeze property simply by absconding. If the police suspect that a property is the proceeds of crime, commonly known as money laundering, whether the money is placed in their own account, or the account of parents, wife and children, you can ask the bank to freeze the account, the police are with the money not with the person. But the police made these actions, have to explain to the court, if there is no evidence, the court will not allow the freeze to continue, Xu Zhifeng also has the right to hire a lawyer in a couple of days, to apply to the court to thaw the freeze.
The Democratic Party’s Lam Cheuk-ting criticized the government for using “house raids” to suppress dissidents. The police must have a very strong legal basis to freeze a citizen’s account, and all the crimes Xu has committed in Hong Kong have nothing to do with money, it is a criminal offense involving resistance. The bank is required to comply with the police notice to freeze the account, which does not have to come from a court order, and the bank will not know which case the frozen account is related to.
According to Article 43 of the National Security Law of the Hong Kong SAR, the police can freeze, apply for restraining order, charging order, confiscation order, and forfeiture order on property used or intended to be used for the crime, proceeds derived from the crime, etc., when the police maintain the national security department to handle crimes against national security.
HSBC, which froze the account of Xu Zhifeng, responded that it could not comment on the account in question. HSBC must comply with local laws and regulations regardless of the market in which it operates. Please check with the police for more information. The Bank of China Hong Kong did not respond.
Xu Zhifeng, who has arrived in London from Denmark, said that he only found out about the account freeze when he found out that his online banking account was not working on his savings in exile. He has contacted the relevant bank, the clerk replied to the inquiry, said that the account has a special note, but refused to disclose other details.
Police Commissioner Tang Bing-keung criticized the recent spate of people absconding while on bail, and he had explained the situation to the court beforehand. He said that he would follow up on whether Xu Zhifeng had committed any other illegal acts, and did not rule out the possibility of a new charge.
In addition, he said that law and order in Hong Kong has returned to a steady state, with the number of crimes and arrests dropping by 70 to 80 percent in the eight months from March to October compared to the previous eight months. As for the relationship between the police and the public, Anthony Tang described an improvement, but criticized the media for smearing the police force.
In December last year, Xu Zhifeng launched a crowdfunding campaign, with a goal of raising 3.3 million yuan in four months to pursue private prosecutions of police abuse. He said in mid-January this year that 7,624 people had donated and 3.38 million yuan had been raised. Xu did not respond to whether the freezing of his account was related to the crowdfunding.
One of the cases in which Xu was involved was the Gwanghui March on Tuen Mun last July, in which he was charged with obstruction of justice and other charges, as well as violating the privilege law in several legislative sessions.
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