The ex-president of the government’s Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), Cheong Chou Weng, also known as Jackson Chang, has been remanded in custody, awaiting trial for a range of corruption-related crimes, according to a Friday statement by the Commission Against Corruption (CCAC) that, however, did not name Cheong but merely identified him by his former job.
Informed sources have told The Macau Post Daily that Cheong was questioned by an examining magistrate on Thursday, after he had been detained when he was about to leave Macau via the Barrier Gate checkpoint earlier that day.
According to the sources, Cheong had been requested by the CCAC on Wednesday to present himself to the CCAC headquarters in Nape for questioning on Thursday morning, which he accepted. Afterwards he tried to exit Macau, the sources said.
Jackson Chang, the then president of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), attends a plenary session in the legislature’s hemicycle in July last year, when he answered questions from lawmakers during a debate concerning possible amendments to the rules on the institute’s “major investment immigration” and “specialist immigration” schemes. Photo: GCS
