Camera-shy former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang joins CY Leung at event
Tsang is the subject of anti-corruption investigation that is still outstanding more than two and half years after complaints were first lodged
Hong Kong’s former leader Donald Tsang Yam-kuen made a rare appearance before the media on Friday morning, joining current leader Leung Chun-ying onstage at a Buddhist ceremony.
The devout Catholic attended the opening of Po Lin Monastery’s newly built Grand Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas, alongside Zhang Xiaoming, director of the central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong.
Tsang sat at the far right of the stage, while Leung sat in the middle. There was no chatting on stage and none after the ceremony finished, with Leung leaving immediately – ignoring a microphone stand set up by government staff for a press conference.
Tsang has kept a low profile since his tenure as chief executive ended in 2012, likely due to being the subject of an investigation by the city’s anti-corruption body.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption received complaints in February 2012 that Tsang had received inappropriate favours from tycoons, including allegedly accepting rides on private jets and yachts and agreeing to rent a luxury penthouse from a mainland property magnate at a bargain rate.
