The government is near to making its final decision as to whether to file formal charges against former Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang for alleged misconduct.
Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen said yesterday that the investigation is in its final stage, but declined to comment further due to months of work ahead, RTHK reports.
Yuen stressed that the complicated investigation involves a large number of documents and witnesses.
Investigators from the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) have processed mountains of evidence since the probe began in 2012, Yuen said.
Tsang, in office from 2005 to 2012, allegedly accepted advantages from business tycoons – including jaunts on private planes and yachts, sharply reduced rent on a Shenzhen luxury flat ,and extravagant foreign trips – and misused public money.
Investigations on Timothy Tong, former ICAC Commissioner who is also facing a corruption probe (how ironic is that?), are still under way.
Yet current Chief Executive CY Leung, who was involved in a HKD50m funding scandal with an Australian company in 2014, is yet to face any investigation.
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