The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) rejected the request filed by former prosecutor general, Hou Chio Meng, contesting the participation of the court’s president, Sam Hou Fai, in the trial. Ho’s trial will have its first session on Friday, December 9, TUI announced last night.
Invoking Article 32 of the Penal Code, Hou’s defense made the case last week that Sam should not preside over the final judgment. During the investigation held by the Commission Against Corruption, Sam had authorized the investigation for the assets declaration of the former prosecutor general and his wife, and had taken part in the ruling over the request for a habeas corpus based on unlawful imprisonment in early March this year.
The former procurator has been accused of over 1,500 counts of crimes including 19 counts of fraud amounting to a total of MOP167 million.
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