Hong Kong billionaire released from jail
Published on: Friday, March 22, 2019
HONG KONG: What’s the first thing a Hong Kong billionaire does when he’s released from jail? Order dim sum, of course. “The thing I want to do the most? Go home,” 67-year-old Thomas Kwok (pic) said outside Stanley Prison after serving just over three years of his five-year sentence. He was granted an early release for good behaviour.“I have already ordered dim sum.”
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The former Co-Chairman of Hong Kong’s largest developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd., Kwok was found guilty in 2014 of conspiring to bribe the city’s former No. 2 official Rafael Hui in exchange for favourable treatment for the company.
Kwok has a net worth of $12.4 billion, making him Hong Kong’s fifth-richest person alongside his younger brother Raymond Kwok, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index.
He told reporters he has no immediate plan to return to work and will take time to rest. “There were a lot of changes in the company in the four years that I was absent,” he said outside the prison, where he was met by his brother, son Adam and daughter Noelle.
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