Court case delayed over charges

(HK Edition)      Updated : 2016-01-05

Former Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference member Lew Mon-hung's day in court was delayed as his lawyer dealt with an overlap in charges. Lew's charge of perverting the course of justice should have been broken up into two separate charges - one involving his alleged conduct with the Chief Executive and another regarding anti-graft tsar Simon Peh. The former deputy chairman and executive director of Pearl Oriental Oil is alleged to have sent two e-mails and a letter to Leung and Peh, asking them to call an end to an ongoing Independent Commission Against Corruption investigation against him in January 2013.