Former chief prosecutor Ho Chio Meng will be sentenced on Friday afternoon, the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) announced yesterday.
According to the announcement, the sentencing will start at 3 p.m.
The sentencing comes two months after the final hearing of Ho’s five-month trial for alleged fraud, abuse of power, money laundering, false statements and a host of other alleged crimes. Ho stood accused of 1,536 crimes, the highest number of crimes a local defendant has ever been accused of in a single trial, according to sources in Macau’s legal fraternity.
Ho, who headed the Public Prosecution Office (MP) between 1999 and 2014, was remanded in custody in February 2016.
