Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac has appointed Irene Lau Kuan Va, an executive director of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), as the institute’s acting president, his office said in a statement yesterday.
The appointment came after the institute’s president, Jackson Chang, was suspended from his post in the wake of a criminal investigation by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) and Public Prosecution Office for alleged work-related crimes.
The Commission Against Corruption said in a statement last Friday that upon completion of an investigation by the anti-graft body, the president of the board of directors of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, a member of its executive committee and a former official at the institute’s Residency Application and Legal Affairs Division –who is now working as the chief of a department of the government’s Pension Fund (FP) – were transferred to the Judiciary – understood to refer to the Public Prosecution Office – last Thursday for alleged work-related crimes. A number of compulsory measures have been imposed on the three suspects, including suspension from holding office in the public administration and prohibited from leaving Macau.
The then president of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), Jackson Chang (left), speaks during a press conference in March 2017 about the government’s annual Macau International Environmental Cooperation Forum and Exhibition, as Irene Lau Kuan Va, an IPIM executive director at that time, looks on, at the World Trade Centre Macau in Zape. Photo: Annie Cheung
