Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Conspiracy to violate one or more laws. |
Sentence: |
32 months imprisonment |
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Year Crime: |
2002 |
Year Convicted: |
2010 |
Year Cleared: |
2012 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Hong Kong |
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City of Crime: |
Hong Kong |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"Wayland Tsang Wai-lun and his wife, Nancy Kwok Wai-man, were wrongly convicted of conspiracy to deceive shareholders and the Hong Kong stock exchange about a fake gas project on the Chinese mainland in 2002. Wayland was sentenced to 32 months in prison and Nancy was sentenced to 30 months in prison. On November 28, 2012 Hong Kong's Court of Appeals set aside their conspiracy convictions because four other people involved in the alleged conspiracy were acquitted for the same actions Wayland and Nancy were convicted of committing." |
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Innocence Proved By: |
"OIn November 28, 2012 Hong Kong's Court of Appeals set aside their conspiracy convictions because four other people involved in the alleged conspiracy were acquitted for the same actions Wayland and Nancy were convicted of committing." |
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Male |
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Information Source 1: |
"Grand Field fraud couple's conviction quashed, By Thomas Chan (staff), Sough China Morning Post, November 29, 2012" |
Information Location 1: |
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1093258/grand-field-fraud-couples-conviction-quashed |
Information Source 2: |
"HKSAR v Wayland Tsang Wai Lun & others, CACC 96-2010 (HK Court of Appeal, 11-28-2012)" |
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http://legalref.judiciary.gov.hk/lrs/common/ju/ju_frame.jsp?DIS=84611&currpage=T |
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