Hong Kong court declares ex-opposition lawmaker Sixtus Baggio Leung bankrupt over failure to repay Legislative Council salary, expense account
- The court made its declaration after Leung ignored orders to return some HK$930,000 he received from the legislature prior to his ousting in 2016
- Leung publicly announced in December that he had left Hong Kong and was seeking political asylum the US
A Hong Kong court has declared former opposition lawmaker Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang bankrupt over his failure to repay some HK$930,000 in wages and operating expenses he received before he was booted from the legislature in 2016.
By that point, the legislature’s commission had paid each of them HK$929,573 (about US$120,000) between September 22 and October 28.
The sum included one month’s salary of HK$95,180 for October 2016, plus HK$834,393 for office operations, information technology, entertainment and travel expenses.
The commission issued multiple notices demanding repayment and finally decided to take the duo to court in October 2017 after its final ultimatum was ignored.
But neither showed up in court to fight the claim, leading the District Court to rule in favour of the commission and order the repayment in May last year.
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Legislative Council president Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen said Yau had subsequently made recommendations on how she hoped to repay the sum, while Sixtus Leung had ignored the order, prompting the commission’s petition for his bankruptcy in August.
Commission lawyers on Wednesday confirmed that Sixtus Leung had yet to make any repayments, despite having acknowledged the effective service of the petition.
Hui therefore granted the proposed bankruptcy order and directed it to be served by way of ordinary post and email, in light of the former lawmaker’s departure.
