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TELNO 2519
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INFO ROUTINE PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
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OUR TELNO 69 OF 4 JULY 1990 TO PEKING: SHOOTING
SUMMARY
INCIDENT AT NCNA
1. RHKP INVESTIGATION COMPLETE. SUSPECT ARRESTED. NO APPARENT POLITICAL MOTIVE. NCNA INFORMED.
DETAIL
2. ON 5 AUGUST TWO 26 YEAR OLD MALES, CHAN YU-TAT AND YIP KWOK- FAI WERE ARRESTED BY OFFICERS OF THE ORGANISED CRIME AND TRIAD BUREAU. 8 HAND GUNS AND 1,787 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION WERE SEIZED FROM THEIR HOMES. BOTH WERE CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF FIREARMS AND ON 7 AUGUST APPEARED IN EASTERN MAGISTRACY. THEY WERE REMANDED IN POLICE CUSTODY UNTIL 12 AUGUST. IT IS BELIEVED THAT A TOTAL OF 14 HAND GUNS WERE ILLEGALLY IMPORTED INTO HONG KONG BY THE ARRESTED PERSONS AND AN ASSOCIATE, WONG KIN-BONG. WONG EMIGRATED TO CANADA IN FEBRUARY 1990. YORK REGIONAL POLICE, ONTARIO, HAVE ARRESTED WONG.
3. DURING AN INTERVIEW ON THE EVENING OF 5 AUGUST CHAN REFERRED TO THE SHOOTING OF THE NCNA BUILDING. WHEN FURTHER QUESTIONED ON 6 AUGUST HE ADMITTED THAT HE BELIEVED HE HAD ACCIDENTALLY CAUSED THIS DAMAGE WHILST FIRING A HAND GUN FROM HIS ROOF TOP.
4. WONG'S HOME IN CANADA WAS SEARCHED BY CANADIAN POLICE ON 6 AUGUST. LETTERS WERE FOUND WRITTEN TO WONG BY CHAN. ONE, DATED 27 JUNE 1990 DESCRIBES HOW CHAN, HAVING FIRED GUNS FROM THE TOP OF THE WING TAK BUILDING, HAPPY VALLEY, FEARS HE HAD ACCIDENTALLY DAMAGED THE NCNA BUILDING. ON 8 AUGUST A BALLISTICS EXAMINATION CONFIRMED THAT A 380 ACP SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOL SEIZED FROM CHAN FIRED THE BULLET RECOVERED FROM THE NCNA BUILDING.
5. CHAN WHO IS A FIREARMS ENTHUSIASTS, IS A LONELY INDIVIDUAL WHO
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