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Hong Kong court declares ex-opposition lawmaker Sixtus Baggio Leung bankrupt over failure to repay Legislative Council salary, expense account
- The court made its declaration after Leung ignored orders to return some HK$930,000 he received from the legislature prior to his ousting in 2016
- Leung publicly announced in December that he had left Hong Kong and was seeking political asylum the US
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A Hong Kong court has declared former opposition lawmaker Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang bankrupt over his failure to repay some HK$930,000 in wages and operating expenses he received before he was booted from the legislature in 2016.
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Master Hui Ka-ho of the High Court on Wednesday ruled in favour of the Legislative Council Commission about a month after Leung publicly announced he had departed for the US on November 29, severed all ties with his family in Hong Kong and resigned from Youngspiration, the party he founded in 2015.
Leung is among the 30 activists wanted by police on suspicion of violations of the national security law who have fled overseas, the Post understands.
The 34-year-old and his then party colleague Yau Wai-ching, 29, lost their Legco seats in November 2016 for distorting their oaths of office by shouting pro-independence slogans and insulting China during their swearing-in ceremony a month earlier.
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By that point, the legislature’s commission had paid each of them HK$929,573 (about US$120,000) between September 22 and October 28.
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