Read the full judgment text of CACC 000214/1998 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 12 August 1998.
1. The applicant in this matter pleaded guilty to one charge of theft. That charge was particularized that he, with another unknown person, on 27th December 1997, in Hong Kong stole a chose in action, namely a debt of $6,030,000 by Hong Kong Bank to Tang Shuk-yi in Tang Shuk-yi's account Number 546-3-11333-888. There were a number of conspirators involved, it appears, in this trickery. They, by various means without authority, had $6.03m transferred from the victim's account to the 2nd defendant