The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) has rejected an appeal by ex-chief prosecutor Ho Chio Meng to disqualify TUI President Sam Ho Fai from his upcoming trial because the latter allowed the city’s graft busters access to the income and assets declarations of Ho and his wife when they were investigating the case.
Ho’s defence also wanted Sam to be barred from the trial because he had chaired a hearing about Ho’s – unsuccessful – habeas corpus bid.
The court said in a statement yesterday that it decided to dismiss the appeal because it was “clearly unfounded”.
