A disgraced former Hong Kong politician was sentenced to three years in prison by a US federal court in New York for his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe African leaders through contacts made at the United Nations
Hong Kong A disgraced former Hong Kong politician was sentenced to three years in prison by a US federal court in New York Monday for his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe African leaders through contacts made at the United Nations.
The trial of Patrick Ho Chi-Ping, 69, at times, had felt like a Hollywood film script. It spanned three continents, millions of dollars and included clandestine meetings with African leaders in the middle of the Sahara Desert.RELATED ARTICLE: The rise and fall of a Belt and Road billionaire It also shone a light on a mysterious Chinese energy giant that had so tightly aligned itself with President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road policy that it was often hard to distinguish between the two.
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