16 Hong Kong top advisers declare ownership of 110 properties and 450 plots of land; 7 affiliated with city’s golf club
- Ministers, top government advisers declare investments, properties and affiliation with community groups under transparency regulations
- Seven members of city’s key decision-making body report membership at Hong Kong Golf Club, which is lobbying against building public housing on part of its Fanling course
Sixteen top advisers sitting on Hong Kong’s key decision-making body own about 110 properties and more than 450 plots of land in total, according to their updated annual declaration-of-interest data.
It also emerged on Wednesday that seven of the Executive Council’s non-official members were affiliated with the Hong Kong Golf Club, which is lobbying against a government plan to build public housing on a portion of the city’s oldest course.
Among Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu’s governance team of 21 ministers, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui Ching-yu again emerged as the biggest landlord with seven local and overseas properties owned by himself, his wife or other family members.
Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang Kwok-wai, housing chief Winnie Ho Wing-yin and technology minister Sun Dong all owned properties located outside the city.
Ho declared ownership of an incomplete flat in Singapore and three local properties, while Sun reported co-owning an apartment in Beijing with his wife and another three in Hong Kong.
