Espina, Anthony Joseph 艾秉禮

16 years after the ICAC arrested various directors of Yue Fung, Gold Wo and Fu Cheong (all since delisted), the auditors finally get slapped on the wrists with fines of HK$100k to HK$400k, having admitted the complaints against them. E&Y and Kwok Chee Tack was also fined in 2015 over the audits of another fraud, Akai, for 1997-1999.

At last, 11 years after Webb-site blew the whistle on the Egana fraud in our article of 26-Jul-2007, Baker Tilly and its former director get a slap on the wrist and fines of HK$250k and HK$100k respectively for their duff audit. BT even tries to claim that it wasn't responsible for its directors' failings. The audit fee for that year alone was HK$1.47m, far more than the fines. Egana had a market value of HK$7.76bn (US$1bn) on the day of our article, all of which was lost in the collapse.

For failings in the 2008 and 2009 audit of Century Ginwa Retail (0162).

For bad audit work on AzureTrustees Ltd, the firm of Deborah Annells. She admitted and was convicted of theft and fraud and jailed for 9 years in 2016.