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[UGL case] The investigation of Zhou Haoding Committee ruled that the lack of facts does not constitute a condemnation reason

2020-07-09T11:30:38.425Z


The former chief executive, Liang Zhenying, received about 50 million yuan from the UGL company in Australia without reporting, and in 2017, through the Hao Ding, a member of the Legislative Council of the DAB, amended the documents of the Legislative Council Investigation Committee. Legislative Council member Mao Mengjing subsequently motioned to condemn Zhou Haoding's motion and referred it to the investigation committee for follow-up. The committee completed the investigation. Today (8th), the facts established are not sufficient to constitute a condemnation of Zhou Haoding. The report alleges that establishing Zhou Haoding had discussed the proposed research scope of the Select Committee with Liang Zhenying, agreed to Liang Zhenying’s request to modify the research scope, and then submitted the proposed amendments to the Select Committee for discussion at the meeting of the Select Committee; but not establishing Zhou Haoding’s actions constituted his There is a conflict of roles, or it is suspected that there is a transfer of benefits.


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Written by: Zhou Lixi, Luo Jiaqing

2020-07-08 12:42

Last update date: 2020-07-08 12:43

The former chief executive, Liang Zhenying, received about 50 million yuan from the UGL company in Australia without reporting, and in 2017, through the Hao Ding, a member of the Legislative Council of the DAB, amended the documents of the Legislative Council Investigation Committee. Legislative Council member Mao Mengjing subsequently motioned to condemn Zhou Haoding's motion and referred it to the investigation committee for follow-up. The committee completed the investigation. Today (8th), the facts established are not sufficient to constitute a condemnation of Zhou Haoding.

The report alleges that establishing Zhou Haoding had discussed the proposed research scope of the Select Committee with Liang Zhenying, agreed to Liang Zhenying’s request to modify the research scope, and then submitted the proposed amendments to the Select Committee for discussion at the meeting of the Select Committee; but not establishing Zhou Haoding’s actions constituted his There is a conflict of roles, or it is suspected that there is a transfer of benefits.

The committee ruled that the facts were insufficient and did not constitute a reason to condemn Zhou Haoding. (Information picture/Photo by Lu Yiming)

Regarding the allegations of violations of oaths and misconduct in the resolution, the Commission of Inquiry believes that Zhou Haoding’s behavior may cause the public to question whether, as a member of the Select Committee, after communicating with the investigator, whether he has the ability to make an independent and objective judgment, causing the public to negatively affect the incident Look and feel. However, the committee believes that this has no impact on Zhou Haoding's support of the Basic Law, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, or his due diligence, compliance with laws, and integrity.

The Committee alleges that Zhou Haoding’s actions were insufficient to constitute his failure or neglect to fulfil the promises made in the oath made in Article 104 of the Basic Law and Chapter 11 of the Laws of Hong Kong, so he did not accept the allegations of breach of oath.

Report: There is not enough basis that Zhou Haoding's behavior affects the overall reputation of the Legislative Assembly

As to whether Zhou Haoding’s conduct constituted a misconduct under Article 79(7) of the Basic Law, the Commission of Inquiry agreed that only when a member commits a very serious misconduct, the punishment for disqualification of the member, but the member does not have a sufficient basis The conclusion is that Zhou Haoding's behavior is serious enough to affect the overall reputation of the Legislative Council.

The Committee did not believe that Zhou Haoding’s behavior was as described in the “Guide to Persuasion”, which severely damaged the credibility of the Legislative Council or the public’s expectations of the Legislative Council’s generally expected code of conduct. Not enough to constitute a charge of misconduct.

Citizen Party Guo Rongkeng and Democratic Party Tu Jinshen disagreed with the content of the committee's report. The two wrote a "minority report" to submit other opinions. (Information picture/photo by Luo Junhao)

Fanmin disagrees with the content of the report and writes "a few reports" to submit other opinions

Also in the committee, Guo Rongkeng of the Citizen Party and Tu Jinshen of the Democratic Party disagreed with the content of the report of the committee, and the two wrote a "minority report" to submit other opinions. Guo Rongkeng introduced at the conference that Zhou Haoding, as the vice chairman of the special committee for investigating UGL incidents, submitted to the committee the proposed investigation scope revised by Liang Zhenying.

Guo Rongkeng pointed out that a few reports used legal tests to check whether Zhou Haoding misled the legislature’s organs, and that although Zhou did not attend the Select Committee hearing, the facts disclosed were enough to confirm that he misled the Legislative Council. Guo said that first of all, Zhou Haoding's document has been revised, Zhou pointed out that the scope is his own opinion, and Zhou Haoding did not mention this matter to anyone in the Legislative Council before being exposed by the media. Guo Rongkeng also pointed out that once it was confirmed that Zhou Haoding had misled the Legislative Council, other charges against him could be confirmed.

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