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FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1991
APPEAL AGAINST TAX EVASION CONVICTION DISMISSED
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THE COURT OF APPEAL TODAY (FRIDAY) DISMISSED AN APPEAL BY A 51- YEAR-OLD BUSINESSMAN AGAINST CONVICTION OF TAX EVASION CHARGES.
ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE CONS, AND JUSTICES KEMPSTER AND POWER RULED THAT THE APPELLANT, KWOK HING-FOR KINGSFORD, HAD TO SERVE 30 DAYS MORE IN VIEW OF THE UNMERITORIOUS GROUND OF THE APPEAL.
THE COURT OF APPEAL DIRECTED THAT THERE WERE NO MERITORIOUS GROUND FOR THIS APPEAL AND UNDER SECTION 83W OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ORDINANCE, THE 30 DAYS OF PERIOD IN CUSTODY WHICH KWOK HAD SPENT SINCE FILING HIS APPEAL SHOULD NOT BE COUNTED TOWARDS THE SENTENCE.
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KWOK WAS SENTENCED TO 12 MONTHS IMPRISONMENT AND FINED A OF $3.3 MILLION FOR TAX EVASION IN WANCHAI DISTRICT COURT ON FEBRUARY 5, 1991.
EVADED.
THE FINE WAS EQUIVALENT TO 200 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL TAX
REPRESENTING THE CROWN WAS ASSISTANT SOLICITOR GENERAL, MR MICHAEL BLANCHFLOWER. APPEARING FOR THE APPELLANT WERE MR JEFFREY WATSON AND ALEXANDER LAU.
THE INLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT REMINDED THE PUBLIC THAT TAX EVASION IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE. UPON CONVICTION, THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE IS THREE YEARS IMPRISONMENT AND A FINE OF $20,000 ON EACH CHARGE, IN ADDITION TO A FURTHER FINE EQUIVALENT TO THREE TIMES THE AMOUNT OF TAX UNDERCHARGED.
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