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Written by: Ling Yide
2021-06-17 17:26
Last update date: 2021-06-17 17:26
The National Security Office of the police arrested five directors of Next Media Group this (17) morning on suspicion of violating Article 29 of the National Security Law on "conspiracy to collude with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security". They include Next Media CEO Zhang Jianhong and Next Media Group Chief Operating Officer Zhou Daquan, "Apple Daily" vice president Chen Peimin, editor-in-chief Luo Weiguang, and Apple Mobile News Platform Director Zhang Zhiwei. Among them, Zhang Jianhong and Zhou Daquan were also accused of violating the tenancy agreement of Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate and suspected of fraud on the day the police searched the One Media Building in August last year. He was arrested for crimes, and Zhou, together with Li Zhiying and Chief Executive Officer Huang Weiqiang, were eventually charged with fraudulent charges last month and tentatively scheduled for trial next year.
Zhou Daquan was escorted out of the "Apple" building and will be taken to the police station for detention.
(Photo by Li Zetong)
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On August 10 last year, more than one hundred police officers raided the One Media Building and approached 25 boxes of exhibits. On that day, the founder Li Zhiying and a number of Top Media officials were arrested, including Zhang Jianhong on suspicion of conspiracy to commit fraud, and Zhou Daquan on suspicion of colluding with foreign or foreign forces and conspiracy. Conspiracy to defraud.
Zhou Daquan, together with founder Li Zhiying and administrative director Huang Weiqiang, were subsequently charged with one count of fraud. The charge accused them of concealing from the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Company from June 2016 to May last year and failing to comply with the lease entered into in 1999. Using the premises at No. 8 Chun Ying Street, Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, and concealing the purpose from the Science and Technology Park Company, with the intent to defraud and induce the Science and Technology Park Company not to take action, resulting in the Apple Daily and or Lego Consulting Co., Ltd. receiving nearly 20 million Interest, or cause the science and technology park company to suffer disadvantages.
The case was brought to trial on the 6th of last month and is tentatively scheduled for trial from March to April next year. Zhou Daquan was allowed to report every two weeks.
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