BANK OF CHINA (HONG KONG) LIMITED 中國銀行(香港)有限公司

According to the ICAC, the husband-and-wife insurance agents referred over 270 clients to the 3 co-defendants for bank account opening at the HSBC North Point branch over 2 years.

The fraud was facilitated by the HK Government's interventionist corporate welfare schemes in which taxpayers guarantee loans to businesses. He was acting for an unnamed "mastermind of the scheme" whom the ICAC does not identify.

Mr Lau, now back in control of the Kimberley Hotel via Regent National Enterprises Ltd, succeeds in the final appeal. Regent had terminated, on force majeure grounds, the 2003 sale of the hotel to Goldlion Properties, a subsidiary of Kwong Hing Investment (HK) Ltd, which we believe is controlled by the Fu family which once controlled the Furama Hotel in HK.

Regarding Stephen Lau Hei Wing: "It appeared from his affirmation that he was born in PRC but had lived and worked in the USA and Hong Kong for 23 years. That on 23 July 1999, he was detained by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) to assist investigation and was only released 3½ years later on 30 January 2003"