Hong Kong fugitive Anna Kwok’s father charged with handling her financial assets

Hong Kong national security police have charged the father of wanted activist Anna Kwok Fung-yee for allegedly handling the funds or financial assets of an absconder, the Post has learned.

A police source said on Friday that national security officers also arrested the brother of the United States-based Kwok for the same offence during an operation on the same day. He has been granted bail pending further investigation.

Anna Kwok, 28, who left the city in January 2020, is among the first batch of eight wanted activists accused of breaching the national security law in 2023. Each has a HK$1 million (US$128,100) bounty on their head. The list has subsequently grown to 19.

Police launched an investigation after observing that the pair had met Anna Kwok overseas earlier, and found out that her father Kwok Yin-sang had illegally helped his daughter in handling her insurance policy upon his return to Hong Kong, according to the source.

Kwok Yin-sang, 68, is understood to have planned to retrieve a nearly HK$100,000 cash balance from the policy and submitted several forms claiming to have the signature of him or his daughter.

Anna Kwok’s brother, who also worked at that insurance company, was suspected of having helped in handling his sister’s assets using his power or knowledge in the industry, according to the source.

Kwok Yin-sang was brought to West Kowloon Court on Friday afternoon after being charged with attempting to directly or indirectly deal with any funds or other financial assets or economic resources belonging to, or owned or controlled by, a relevant absconder.