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Patrick Ho

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
Former Hong Kong home affairs minister Patrick Ho leaves AsiaWorld-Expo after a coronavirus test upon his return to the city last June. Photo: May Tse
Crime in Hong Kong

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

Ophthalmologist-turned-politician Patrick Ho, a registered doctor since 1980, has been barred from practising medicine for 12 months by the Medical Council of Hong Kong.

United States

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

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Hong Kong politics

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

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.

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Former Hong Kong home affairs chief Patrick Ho was released early from jail in New York. Photo: Franke Tsang
United States

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.

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Xi Jinping

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.

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Huawei

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?

Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou shares a laugh with her driver as she leaves her home in Vancouver for the start of her extradition hearing on March 6. Photo: EPA-EFE
Crime

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.

Crime

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

Crime

Video | Ex-Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho sentenced

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

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.

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Patrick Ho wept as he apologised during his sentencing hearing in New York on Monday. Image: Reuters/Jane Rosenberg
US Politics

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 .

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.

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.

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
United Nations

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.

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres speaks to reporters ahead of the UN Migration Conference in Marrakesh on December 9, 2018. Photo: AFP

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.

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.

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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.

Huawei’s Sabrina Meng Wanzhou. As geopolitical tensions rise, Chinese companies can expect to be targeted by US authorities. Photo: AFP
My Take

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.

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

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

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

Patrick Ho marries Taiwanese actress Sibelle Hu. Photo: SCMP Archive
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.

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.

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.

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.

Former Hong Kong home affairs secretary Patrick Ho, depicted in this courtroom sketch, did not take the stand on Monday. Photo: AP

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.

Patrick Ho ‘impressed’ by Chadian president’s rejection of US$2 million gift

Defendant also apologised to President Idriss Deby, who felt insulted and disrespected after finding money in boxes from him and CEFC China Energy representatives.

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