UGL case｜Legislative Council investigates Liang Zhenying committee's work: Liang refuses to go to the meeting to obtain evidence　

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Written by Peng Zhuowei

2020-07-15 13:07

Former Chief Executive Liang Zhenying involved in receiving about 50 million yuan from UGL Australia without reporting. The Legislative Council established a select committee in 2017 to investigate the incident. The Select Committee issued a report today (15th) stating that in view of the continuous difficulty in the operation of the Committee, members felt that it was difficult to conduct further investigations on the matters involved based on their terms of reference; specifically, the Select Committee could not enter the stage of discovering facts and deliberation, Therefore, it was decided to end the work.

Special Committee Chairman Xie Weijun (photo by Luo Junhao)

The report alleges that Liang Zhenying did not provide the information requested by the Select Committee. On the contrary, he provided the Select Committee with a file containing 12 documents and claimed that these documents were sufficient to assist the Select Committee to reach a correct conclusion. Liang Zhenying stated that he would not attend any meeting of the Select Committee.

The report also pointed out that the Select Committee encountered many difficulties in the investigation, and had difficulties in obtaining information/evidence, and it was difficult to obtain relevant, sufficient and comprehensive information/evidence for its investigation. In addition, the relevant parties also refused to attend the inquiry of the select committee, so that the select committee could not obtain more information/evidence from the witnesses, and believed that the information presented by the parties was at best a statement that was beneficial to itself, and if the select committee measured accordingly The weight of these materials and the lack of opportunity to clarify the issues involved with the relevant witnesses are not appropriate.

The report points out that the information obtained by the Select Committee is of a general nature. Due to the limited relevant/useful information obtained by the Select Committee, the Select Committee cannot reach any identifiable findings, observations and conclusions on the matters under investigation in a fair and objective manner, and As for any or all of the allegations that constitute the subject of this investigation, it is not appropriate to conclude that the allegations made against any person/party are true or false.

The four members of the Democratic Party, Liang Jichang (pictured), Yang Yueqiao, Yin Zhaojian and Lin Zhuoting, published a few reports on the incident today. (Photo by Luo Junhao)

Democratic minority report: Extremely sorry for Liang’s refusal to cooperate

The four members of the Democratic Party, Liang Jichang, Yang Yueqiao, Yin Zhaojian and Lin Zhuoting, separately issued a few reports on the incident, pointing out that Liang Zhenying was the main investigation target of the select committee, but he refused to attend any meeting, making the work of the select committee difficult and impossible to find through inquiry The truth of the UGL incident and criticism of his refusal to cooperate is extremely regrettable. 

Regarding the DAB Zhou Haoding who had contacted Liang Zhenying to discuss the proposed main research area of ​​the Select Committee and proposed amendments afterwards, and failed to disclose the relevant matters to the Select Committee in time, 4 Members thought that Zhou Haoding’s behavior was against integrity. And seriously damage the credibility of the Select Committee and should be strongly condemned.

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