Hong Kong: Media mogul Jimmy Lai gets over five years for fraud

Jimmy Lai, the billionaire Hong Kong media tycoon, has been sentenced to astir six years successful situation for fraud.

A justice said Lai, recovered blameworthy of illegally subletting bureau abstraction successful October, felt nary remorse.

As good arsenic being sentenced to 5 years and 9 months, Lai was fined 2m Hong Kong dollars (£209,535).

The 75-year-old precocious served clip for taking portion successful a banned vigil past year for victims of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

A abstracted proceedings involving Lai connected nationalist information charges had been owed to statesman connected 1 December but was postponed astatine the petition of Hong Kong person John Lee Ka-chiu. If convicted, helium faces up to beingness imprisonment.

China has enforced its wide-ranging national information law connected the metropolis of Hong Kong, making it easier to prosecute protesters.

The instrumentality has led to the arrests of galore salient ideology activists.

Hong Kong, a erstwhile British colony, returned to China's regularisation successful 1997.