523:. Police officers also swooped on the offices of Birmingham International, and left with an assortment of documents. A brief statement mentioned that Narcotics Bureau officers searched two locations – one on Hong Kong Island and the other in Kowloon – and seized documents. The charges involved five counts of dealing with property known or believed to represent proceeds of an indictable offence. His hearing was adjourned until 11 August 2011, and was remanded on bail of HK$ 7 million (US$ 900,000).
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reversed the ruling made in August by the
District Court and gave him permission to leave Hong Kong for England. Yeung's trial opened in May 2013 and lasted until March 2014, when he was found guilty on five counts of money laundering a total of HK$ 720 million and was sentenced to six years' imprisonment. The trial judge, Douglas Yau, commented that Yeung was "not a witness of truth", and that his sentence included a necessary element of deterrence.
491:. In November 2007 he was looking to sell off residential and commercial developments to Golden Resorts Group (黃金集團) but had difficulties in selling them. In addition, Beijing was stepping up measures to cool off the mainland property market, which affected his revenue streams. Similar issues occurred in 2011 when he tried to sell plots of land in Liaoning. He ran into debt in a number of sectors owing millions to
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Yeung was supposed to travel on 14 September 2011 to attend to his duties at
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