Six persons related to the 612 Humanitarian Support Fund, including Emeritus Catholic Cardinal Chen Rijun, artist Ho Yunshi, and other people involved in the case of failing to apply for registration or exemption from registration within the specified time limit, will continue their trial in the West Kowloon Court today (27th).
The female inspector pointed out that the relevant associations that had never received the 612 Fund were registered, but the defense lawyer asked her if the gambling king Stanley Ho died the previous year, whether the name of his funeral committee was registered as an association. It also refers to how to deduce what a society is, and it will be dealt with when the presentation is made.
The defense did not pursue further questions.
After hearing the prosecution's evidence in the afternoon, the magistrate ruled that the six defendants' evidence was established.
Charged with breaching the Societies Ordinance
The six defendants are Chen Rijun, Wu Aiyi, Xu Baoqiang, He Xiulan, He Yunshi, and Shi Chengwei.
The first five defendants are the trustees of the fund, and the sixth defendant is the director general of the secretariat of the fund.
They each deny one count of summons for "failure to apply for registration or exemption from registration as a society within the specified time limit", alleging that they were in Hong Kong from July 16, 2019 to October 31, 2021 as the "612 Humanitarian Support Fund". The local society officer failed to comply with section 5(1) of the Societies Ordinance, Chapter 151, Laws of Hong Kong within the specified time limit.
6 defendants in the case.
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The defense alleges that the deposits are mostly small amounts
National Security Police Chief Cai Jianzhang was questioned by the defense. He was responsible for the bank accounts and tax records involved in the case. The defense pointed out that the bank accounts used by the 612 Fund had a total deposit of more than 450 million yuan.
The defense pointed out that based on the calculation of more than 100,000 transactions, each transaction was about 4,000 yuan on average. Cai Zhi did not calculate it, but agreed that there were deposits of different amounts such as 500 yuan, 1,000 yuan, and 10,000 yuan.
The defense continued to point out that most of the deposits were small, with deposits of more than 100,000 yuan and a total of less than 9 million yuan.
Cai said that he had not classified them and was not clear.
After Stanley Ho passed away in 2020, his descendants set up a funeral committee to prepare for the funeral.
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The defense asked whether the gambling king's funeral committee was registered
Senior Inspector Gong Yilin testified and worked in the Police Licensing Office. She pointed out that after any local association is established, it must be registered within the time limit, and the name of the association, the address occupied and the information of the three officers should be submitted.
Until June 17 this year, the "612 Humanitarian Support Fund" and the "Humanitarian Support Fund for the Injured and Arrested in the Anti-extradition Movement" had not been registered or exempted from registration.
The defense asked whether the name of the gambling king’s funeral committee was registered as a society after the death of the gambling king the year before.
Case number: WKS 4829-4834/2022
612 Fund involved unregistered Chen Rijun and other 6 people pleaded not guilty. The prosecution said that 270 million was deposited into the account. The 612 Fund involved unregistered defense will argue whether it is the official lawyer of the society. The funeral committee of the political and business fierce group [Liu Huangfa passed away] The funeral committee has more than 500 members, including three chief executives.
