Five months on, Hong Kong police still lack answers from China about missing tycoon Xiao Jianhua
City authorities intend to press on with the probe, and government sources tell the Post they believe he was escorted by mainland officials over border
Government sources said they believed Xiao was escorted back across the border by mainland law enforcement agents, but admitted there was nothing Hong Kong police could do if mainland authorities did not answer them.
While Xiao was believed to be on the mainland helping with investigations, force insiders said they had no information because their counterparts over the border had refused to confirm or deny anything.
The Post has learned that Xiao did not carry a travel document when he left his serviced apartment at the Four Seasons Hotel in Central on January 27, suggesting he might not have known where he was being taken.
“Xiao was first driven to one of the city’s immigration control points, but he failed to produce his travel document and was not allowed to cross the border,” a source said.
His travel document, the source added, was later brought to him before he left the city through another control point, at Lok Ma Chau, as reported earlier. Xiao was seen in a car during an immigration inspection before the vehicle drove across the border.
The force is treating the case as “requested police investigation” and the Hong Kong Island regional crime unit is handling it.
