Pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai found guilty on fraud charges
The Hindu
Jimmy Lai is already serving a 20-month sentence for his role in unauthorised assemblies.
Pro-democracy Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai was found guilty on October 25 on a pair of fraud charges related to lease violations — the latest of a series of prosecutions apparently aimed at punishing him for his past activism.
Lai had been arrested during a crackdown on the pro-democracy movement following widespread protests in 2019 under the city's sweeping Beijing-imposed National Security Law. He is already serving a 20-month sentence for his role in unauthorised assemblies.
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His media company Next Digital had published the now-shuttered Apple Daily, Hong Kong's last surviving pro-democracy newspaper.
Lai also faces collusion charges under the National Security Law and a separate sedition charge. His ex-colleague Wong Wai-keung was also convicted on Tuesday on a single charge of fraud.
Lai and two former executives at his company were charged with fraud for subletting part of the office space to a secretarial firm, which was also controlled by Lai, between 2016 and 2020. Their move was said to have violated the lease agreements with the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation. The second fraud count was for letting the same firm use the media outlet's office space in breach of lease agreements between 1998 and 2015.
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