Hong Kong woman targeted in spying row faces civil suit over theft of HK$164 million from ex-employers
- Media have reported Monica Kwong is alleged target of break-in at UK home as part of spying case linked to Hong Kong’s trade outpost in London
- Kwong failed to appear at civil proceedings in Hong Kong over claims she stole cash from ex-employers HK Yearshine Investment and Twt Global
A Hong Kong woman named as a suspected target in a spying case in the UK is facing civil proceedings at the city’s High Court over allegations she stole more than HK$164 million (US$21 million) from her former employers.
Monica Kwong Man-ki, who previously worked at HK Yearshine Investment and Twt Global, did not appear in court on Friday as the two companies sought to extend an injunction preventing her from transferring the allegedly stolen money.
The whereabouts of Kwong and the case’s three other defendants were not immediately clear.
Yuen, an office manager at the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office in London, and the other two were last week charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service and foreign interference between last December and May of this year, under the United Kingdom’s National Security Act.
