Former Chief Secretary for Administration of HKSAR Rafael Hui Si-Yan

Rafael Hui Si-Yan is a former Chief Secretary (second highest ranked government official) for Administration of Hong Kong. He was arrested in March 2012 by ICAC. The trial was opened in early June 2014, was called the most high-profile corruption in the history of the Hong Kong SAR. Hui was convicted of five counts of misconduct in public office after a 128-day trial in Hong Kong. He was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison and ordered to return bribes of 11.182 million Hong Kong Dollars. It was the longest investigation carried out by ICAC since the city's return to Chinese rule in 1997. It started out with a team of just three in order to keep it secretive. The trial involved over 120 witnesses, 230 bank accounts, local and overseas, thousands of bank transactions spanning almost a decade.

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