Read the full judgment text of DCCC 001024/2008 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 26 March 2009.
1. D1 and D2 both plead guilty to the Second Charge: ‘Conspiracy to obtain property by deception'. It is alleged that both defendants between 5/8/08 and 7/8/08 in Hong Kong conspired together to dishonestly obtain from Wong Pik-fai a sum of US$1.068M with the intention of permanently depriving the said Wong Pik-fai of that sum by deception, namely, by falsely representing that they had in their possession a quantity of diamonds of 1,068 carat, which they agreed to sell to the said Wong Pik-fai a