Kelly Hill School in Hong Kong has been plagued by the scandal of financial difficulties and wage arrears for many months. A number of former employees have filed claims for delayed payment. The incident has seen new developments in recent days.
It is understood that the police received a report from a school representative who suspected that the school’s senior management, Wang Zhong, the former chief financial officer, was involved in the theft of 599,000 yuan of school funds.
The police said that after investigation, a 34-year-old man named Wang was arrested on suspicion of theft last Saturday (7th). He is now being released on bail pending further investigation.
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Kelly Hill School in Hong Kong has been in financial difficulties for a long time. It was accused of wage arrears earlier, and the incident has made new progress.
"Sing Tao Daily" quoted sources as saying that the school received a bank notice in the middle of last month that a large number of cheques were "bombeded", and only a sum of about 599,000 yuan was successfully transferred to another company account controlled by Wang Zhong, and then passed " FPS" is transferred to a virtual bank account under its name.
Police arrested a 34-year-old man surnamed Wang for theft
In response to the enquiry of "Hong Kong 01", the police stated that they received a report from a school representative on July 15 stating that a former employee had stolen school funds of 599,000 yuan on July 13, and the case was classified as theft. The fourth team of the Police District Criminal Investigation Team followed up.
After investigation, the police arrested a 34-year-old man surnamed Wang on suspicion of theft in Tsim Sha Tsui district on August 7.
He has been released on bail pending investigation and must report to the police in late August. The case is still under investigation.
Looking through the information, Wang Zhong is the brother of Wang Baixian, the co-founder of Kailishan Education Group. He recently filed a petition in the High Court to recover Wang Baixian’s outstanding loans of more than 10.88 million yuan and continuing expenses of more than 1.38 million yuan on his behalf, as well as Payments, interest and legal costs, etc., and demand compensation.
Yesterday the school also had ten staff members, including the deputy principal Rothwell Nicholas Stephen, who filed a complaint with the Labour Tribunal for arrears of wages.
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