{"id":1255,"date":"2025-04-22T23:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2025-07-19T23:56:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:56:46","slug":"prosecution-withdrew-two-charges-of-money-laundering-against-a-defendant-who-allegedly-laundered-hk-5-95-million-on-the-first-day-of-a-4-day-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/prosecution-withdrew-two-charges-of-money-laundering-against-a-defendant-who-allegedly-laundered-hk-5-95-million-on-the-first-day-of-a-4-day-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecution withdrew two charges of money laundering against a defendant who allegedly laundered HK$ 5.95 million on the first day of a 4-day trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<section class=\"section news-detail-section\" id=\"section_866768064\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-1067978867\" class=\"text breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #627A80;\nfont-family: Merriweather;\nfont-size: 13px;\nfont-style: normal;\nfont-weight: 400;\nline-height: 150%; \/* 19.5px *\/\nletter-spacing: 0.39px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/\">Home<\/a> \/ <a href=\"\/news\/\">News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_866768064 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<section class=\"section news-detail-section\" id=\"section_594207147\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-331333056\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1193634311\" class=\"col medium-12 small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-4108508737\" class=\"text h3\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>Prosecution withdrew two charges of money laundering against a defendant who allegedly laundered HK$ 5.95 million on the first day of a 4-day trial<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-745679231\" class=\"text h5\">\n\t\t\n\n<p><strong>HKSAR v Wu ** (\u80e1**)<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-745679231 {\n  font-size: 1.25rem;\n  text-align: left;\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n#text-745679231 > * {\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1146585640\" class=\"text txt-bold\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>22 April 2025<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1962673926\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wu-Ka-Yee-1024x576.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wu-Ka-Yee-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wu-Ka-Yee-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wu-Ka-Yee-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wu-Ka-Yee-18x10.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wu-Ka-Yee.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1962673926 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"gap-1436354674\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1436354674 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #gap-1436354674 {\n    padding-top: 40px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<p>Prosecution withdrew two charges of money laundering against a defendant who allegedly laundered HK$ 5.95 million on the first day of a 4-day trial. <br \/><br \/>The Defendant was said to have laundered HK$ 5.2 million between December 2018 and October 2022 through an HSBC bank account and HK$ 755 thousand between July 2022 and October 2022 through a ZA Bank account. After making representations on a without-prejudice save as to costs basis to the prosecution, the prosecution decided to withdraw the charges against the Defendant. <br \/><br \/>Simon So appeared with Jack Hui for the Defendant.<\/p>\n\t<div id=\"gap-1116602715\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1116602715 {\n  padding-top: 60px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div class=\"ux-menu stack stack-col justify-start ux-menu--divider-solid\">\n\t\t\n\n\t<div class=\"ux-menu-link flex menu-item menu-button-link\">\n\t\t<a class=\"ux-menu-link__link flex\" href=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/news\/\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ux-menu-link__text\">\n\t\t\t\tBack to News\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_594207147 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecution withdrew two charges of money laundering against a defendant who allegedly laundered HK$ 5.95 million on the first day of a 4-day trial, which was accepted by Deputy District Judge Terrence Wai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}