Tidigare Hongkong-ledare fängslas för korruption
Den före detta Hongkong-ledaren Donald Tsang har dömts till 20 månader i fängelse för försummelse, rapporterar AP. Tsang döms för att han inte berättade att han hade planer på att hyra en lyxlägenhet från en affärsman vars företag samtidigt ansökte om en radiolicens.
Tsang var chefsminister för den kinesiska särskilda administrativa regionen Hongkong mellan 2005 och 2012. Han är därmed den högst rankade nuvarande eller tidigare tjänsteman som fängslats för korruption i Hongkong.
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Donald Tsang
Wikipedia (en)
Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, GBM (Chinese: 曾蔭權; born 7 October 1944) is a former Hong Kong civil servant and the second Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012.
Tsang joined the colonial civil service in 1967, occupying various positions in local administration, finance and trade before he was appointed Financial Secretary of Hong Kong in 1995, becoming the first ethnic Chinese to hold the position under British administration. He continued to serve in the Hong Kong SAR government after 1997 and known for his intervention in Hong Kong's stock market during the 1997 financial crisis. Tsang became the Chief Secretary for Administration in 2001 and ran for the Chief Executive in 2005 after incumbent Tung Chee-hwa resigned. He served the remaining term of Tung and was re-elected in 2007. He served a full five-year term until he stepped down in 2012.
Before the end of his term, Tsang was exposed by the media of various corruption allegations. He was subsequently charged by the Independent Commission Against Corruption and was found guilty of one count of misconduct in public office in February 2017, becoming the highest officeholder in Hong Kong history to be convicted.
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