Executives detained in Taiwan amid spying claims seek help from Hong Kong
- Xiang Xin and his wife Kung Ching, who were taken away by investigators on November 24, instruct lawyers to send letter to city’s representative office
- Prosecutors began investigating the pair after allegations were made about the company by self-proclaimed former Chinese spy Wang Liqiang
Two executives of a Hong Kong-listed company who have been detained for a month in Taiwan amid spying allegations are seeking help from the Hong Kong government.
China Innovation Investment Limited said in a statement on Friday that its chief executive Xiang Xin and his wife Kung Ching, an alternate director, had instructed their lawyers to send a letter seeking assistance to the Hong Kong Economic, Trade and Cultural Office – the city’s representative office in Taiwan.
The statement said Xiang and Kung hoped to “resolve the issue of restrictions on the basic human rights of Hong Kong permanent residents through official channels”.
China Trends Holdings Limited, another company owned by Xiang, issued a similar statement on Friday.
The lawyers were instructed to send the letter after the Taipei District Court rejected appeals filed by Xiang and Kung on December 17, and ruled in favour of the prosecutors’ decision to bar them from leaving the island.
