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Patrick Ho

Patrick Ho

Patrick Ho Chi-ping is a former Hong Kong home affairs minister.

Born

24 Jul 1949

Industry

Politics

Job Title

Former Secretary of Home Affairs, Hong Kong SAR

Taiwanese-American actor Peter Ho has gained renewed fame in China for playing warlord Xiang Yu in a 2012 drama following another actor’s recent “foundation general” nickname for his flawless make-up in battle scenes. Photo: SCMP composite/Weibo/YouTube/QQ.com/FX Networks

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China actor gains renewed fame after fellow star’s warlord role mocked for flawless make-up

‘Handsome‘ actor faces wave of ‘pretty boy’ jibes after character in costume drama returns from battle looking fresh as a daisy.

25 Apr 2026 - 6:00PM

Crime in Hong Kong

Ex-home affairs minister suspended from medical registry over US conviction

11 May 2021 - 11:25PM

US court upholds conviction of ex-Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho

30 Dec 2020 - 10:38AMvideocam

Hong Kong politics

Freed after serving US bribery sentence, a ‘very tired’ Patrick Ho begins quarantine

The 70-year-old former Home Affairs minister was swiftly ushered into a waiting sedan outside AsiaWorld-Expo after testing negative for Covid-19.

10 Jun 2020 - 11:33PM

Former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho is seen leaving the AsiaWorld-Expo after testing negative for Covid-19. He was released from a New York prison on Monday, after serving a jail term for his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe top African leaders. Photo: May Tse

Crime in Hong Kong

Disgraced former minister Patrick Ho returns to city after jail release

He flew first to Zurich, where he boarded a Swiss International Air Lines flight bound for the city.

10 Jun 2020 - 10:28PMvideocam

Disgraced ex-Hong Kong official Patrick Ho released from US jail

The 70-year-old, who was jailed for 36 months and fined US$400,000 last year for bribery and money laundering, is also expected to be deported because his passport has expired.

11 Jun 2020 - 9:53AMvideocam

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Documents reveal how Patrick Ho tried to push China’s belt and road at UN

Former home affairs secretary, who is serving three years in US prison for bribery, tried to set up meeting between Ugandan Sam Kutesa and Xi, though Kutesa did not ultimately meet Chinese president on visit to Beijing.

14 Jul 2019 - 12:05AM

Patrick Ho was jailed for three years by a New York federal court in March, after being found guilty of offering a total of US$2.9 million (HK$22.7 million) in bribes to former UNGA president Sam Kutesa, Chadian President Idriss Déby and Senegalese diplomat Cheikh Gadio. Photo: AP

How supporters of China and Huawei are barking up the wrong tree

Beijing’s supporters won’t have a strong case against Washington if they focus on legal rights of individuals. They need to ask different questions, like: what gives the US the right to ban foreign companies from doing business with Iran?

2 Apr 2019 - 2:44AM

Patrick Ho appeals against US conviction for bribery

Ex-home affairs chief will be allowed to serve another six months at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Centre to prepare for his appeal, before moving to an out-of-town prison.

29 Mar 2019 - 1:09AM

Editorial | Fate of Patrick Ho sends out warning

Jailing of former Hong Kong home affairs minister in the United States must never be forgotten by companies and businessmen from China who go abroad in search of new markets and growth opportunities

26 Mar 2019 - 9:46PM

Former Hong Kong official Patrick Ho was sentenced to three years in jail over a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving top African leaders. Photo: SCMP

Video | Ex-Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho sentenced

26 Mar 2019 - 11:07AM

Former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho gets 3-year sentence in US bribery and money laundering case

Ex-Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho gets 3-year sentence after tearful apology

Ho was given credit for time already served so will spend an additional 20 months behind bars, and must pay a US$400,000 fine.

26 Mar 2019 - 11:26PM

Patrick Ho: I am first ‘sacrificial lamb’ in US-China trade war

Hong Kong’s disgraced former home affairs minister compares himself to Huawei boss Sabrina Meng and says charges against him were political, but prosecutors say he has shown no remorse and want him jailed for five years .

19 Mar 2019 - 10:59PM

Patrick Ho’s friends and family beg US court for leniency as sentence looms

Defence asks for Ho’s release on 16 months’ time served and submits tearful letters in his support. Sentence to be handed down March 25.

13 Mar 2019 - 10:23PM

Patrick Ho’s friends and family beg US court for leniency as Africa bribery sentence looms

Belt and Road Initiative

Fallout from Patrick Ho case ‘could hurt China’s relationship with US’

Will trade war tensions be exacerbated by revelations over how China conducts business in Africa? Not necessarily, say the experts.

12 Dec 2018 - 2:38PM

Patrick Ho led a CEFC Chinese Energy delegation to meet Chadian President Iris Deby in November 7, 2014. One month later in the second visit, Ho brought along eight boxes stuffed with cash. Photo: Handout

UN encourages top officials to act with the utmost integrity, says spokesman

Farhan Haq, spokesman for António Guterres, tells the Post that, since 2016, General Assembly presidents have had to make a pledge of transparency. Three former presidents of the General Assembly were named in the recent bribery trial of Patrick Ho.

11 Dec 2018 - 4:38PM

Opinion | Patrick Ho case should serve as a lesson for Chinese firms doing business abroad

It is an unambiguous reminder to Chinese companies and businessmen going abroad of the imperative of complying scrupulously with the rules of other jurisdictions.

10 Dec 2018 - 11:16PM

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Patrick Ho planned to buy influence of US Republicans, court documents say

Disgraced former Hong Kong minister discussed ambition to influence politics in United States with boss of Chinese oil group after GOP swept to power in 2014 midterm elections.

9 Dec 2018 - 9:07AM

Disgraced former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho wanted to use Chinese oil money to buy influence of Republican Party politicians, court documents from trial reveal

US-China trade war

How US uses anticorruption laws, sanctions law to police the world

The conviction of former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho in a New York court and detention of Huawei’s chief financial officer, Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, in Canada have demonstrated the global reach of US law enforcement.

12 Dec 2018 - 8:50PM

My Take | The long – and political – arm of US law

There is a common thread in the cases against former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho Chi-ping, Huawei’s Sabrina Meng Wanzhou and fugitive mainland billionaire Guo Wengui - America’s multiple fronts against China.

12 Dec 2018 - 8:55PM

The knitter and the latecomer: 12 jurors who decided Patrick Ho’s fate

Nine women and three men spent seven days in a New York courtroom before finding Ho guilty of seven of eight counts of bribery and money laundering

6 Dec 2018 - 11:21AM

In this courtroom sketch, Assistant US Attorney Paul Hayden points at defendant Patrick Ho (seated far left) during opening statements. Illustration: Elizabeth Williams via AP

Video | Former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho found guilty of bribery and money laundering by US court

6 Dec 2018 - 1:25PM

Former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho found guilty of bribery and money laundering by US court

Music, medicine and an ominous fortune stick: Patrick Ho's life before scandal

Many remember Ho, who went to the US to study music but became a prominent eye surgeon instead, picking an ominous Kau Chim fortune stick during Lunar New Year 2003, the year of Sars.

8 Dec 2018 - 9:30AM

Belt and Road Initiative

Patrick Ho convicted on 7 of 8 counts in US bribery case

The former Hong Kong minister was found guilty by a federal court of offering millions of dollars in bribes to African officials and now faces jail time in the United States.

7 Dec 2018 - 11:16AM

Proving Patrick Ho’s intent to pay bribe could be enough to convict, jury told

Judge Loretta Preska gives detailed direction to nine women and three men who will decide fate of former Hong Kong minister.

5 Dec 2018 - 10:56PM

A courtroom sketch depicting former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho (centre) standing trial for bribery and money laundering. Photo: AP

US bribe trial ends with Patrick Ho branded a cheat ‘like out of a movie’

Prosecutors said Patrick Ho’s “classic” use of bribery as he worked for oil firm CEFC China Energy was “not how legitimate business is done”. But Ho’s defence called the prosecution “deeply flawed” and hammered the credibility of a star prosecution witness.

5 Dec 2018 - 8:10AM

US bribery trial ends with former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho Chi-ping branded a cheat ‘like out of a movie’, who undermined world markets

Jail or freedom? Patrick Ho could know as early as Wednesday

Veteran criminal lawyer says odds are against Ho given the large amount of evidence against him.

4 Dec 2018 - 11:21PM

Patrick Ho trial hears Gadio ‘went too far’ in talk of China-Senegal deals

Former Senegalese foreign minister says he regrets making claims about nation’s diplomatic recognition of Beijing in 2005, during third day of testimony in New York.

30 Nov 2018 - 8:02PM

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