Southern District Councillor gets three months for vote planting
2001-10-22
A Southern District Councillor was today (Monday) sentenced to three months' imprisonment at Western Court for vote-planting offences in connection with the 1999 Southern District Council Election.
Lee Pui-ying, 60, was earlier found guilty on two counts of conspiracy to defraud the Registration and Electoral Office (REO) and two counts of inciting electors to pervert the course of public justice.
Lee was a candidate who contested in the Stanley and Shek O Constituency and elected to the Southern District Council on November 28, 1999.
The court heard that Lee had conspired with Andrew Ng Cheong-fai and Choy Chi-king to defraud the REO by dishonestly causing Ng and Choy to be registered as electors in the Stanley and Shek O Constituency for the 1999 Southern District Council Election wi th false statements about their principal addresses.
Ng and Choy were caused to declare in their voter registration forms that an address in Stanley Main Street was their only or principal residences.
Lee had also unlawfully incited Ng and Choy to give false statements to any investigating authority that they had occasionally resided at the address concerned in order to look after a woman who was a relative of Lee.
The court heard that the woman passed away in 1995. And Ng and Choy were not acquainted with her.
The vote planting offences took place between January 1 and December 31, 1999.
Meanwhile, Ng, 50, and Choy, 29, respectively a senior conveyancing clerk and a secretary of a solicitors' firm, were each sentenced to two months' imprisonment in April this year after pleading guilty to voting offences.
The prosecution was today represented by Newman Wong on a fiat, assisted by ICAC officer Bryan Chong.
Lee Pui-ying, 60, was earlier found guilty on two counts of conspiracy to defraud the Registration and Electoral Office (REO) and two counts of inciting electors to pervert the course of public justice.
Lee was a candidate who contested in the Stanley and Shek O Constituency and elected to the Southern District Council on November 28, 1999.
The court heard that Lee had conspired with Andrew Ng Cheong-fai and Choy Chi-king to defraud the REO by dishonestly causing Ng and Choy to be registered as electors in the Stanley and Shek O Constituency for the 1999 Southern District Council Election wi th false statements about their principal addresses.
Ng and Choy were caused to declare in their voter registration forms that an address in Stanley Main Street was their only or principal residences.
Lee had also unlawfully incited Ng and Choy to give false statements to any investigating authority that they had occasionally resided at the address concerned in order to look after a woman who was a relative of Lee.
The court heard that the woman passed away in 1995. And Ng and Choy were not acquainted with her.
The vote planting offences took place between January 1 and December 31, 1999.
Meanwhile, Ng, 50, and Choy, 29, respectively a senior conveyancing clerk and a secretary of a solicitors' firm, were each sentenced to two months' imprisonment in April this year after pleading guilty to voting offences.
The prosecution was today represented by Newman Wong on a fiat, assisted by ICAC officer Bryan Chong.