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fessional Teachers' Union urged the Attorney General on January

23 to disclose as soon as possible the findings of the investi-

gation. Mr. Szeto also mentioned the fact that neither the tea-

chers nor the students of the school involved in the sit-in had

ever been contacted by the Education Department or the police. ün Jan. 27, an inspector of the Commercial Crimes Bureau had a meeting with two teachers of the school. They were informed

that the investigation would soon be completed and there were

criminal elements in the findings. The police would suggest

the attorney General prosecute Sister Leung Kit-fun.

indicated that only part of the money concerned involved criminal

offence while the bulk of which was a breach of Educational Codes

and these matters would be handed over to the Education Department.

He admitted that the sum of money involved was dure than $250,uuu

and this had been channelled to the account of the Precious

Blood urder.

He also

On Feb. 14, Sister Leung Kit-fun was charged with obtain-

ing property by deception. The charges were amended on Feb. 21

to ten charges of false accounting. She was charged with falsi-

fying salary advice slips of a cleaning woman. The charges

only represented a cross-section of the offences which took

place over a period of 36 moaths.. Sister Leung admitted fraud

and on Feb. 23m was given a six-month suspended sentence.

2. The simultaneous Call to disclose the findings of the investigation

After the conviction of Sister Leung, the students from form

2 to 5 sent letters to the Education Department, the Commercial

Crimes Bureau, the Catholic Bishop and the Precious Blood Order

urging for a full disclosure of the financial irregularities.

Educational bodies such as the Hong Kong Professional Teachers'

Union, the Education Action Group; the post-secondary college studentbodies such as the Hong Kong Federation of Catholic Stu-

dents, the Hong Kong Federation of Students; the Hong Kong Ob-

servers and the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission repeatedly

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