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HONG KONG - ON SHU Kio, the wife of former National Kidney Foundation chairman Richard Yong, has become the biggest casualty in the fallout over the long-running NKF saga - despite not being linked to the running of the charity.
On, 66, who had admitted moving 1.28 million pounds from her joint account with Mr Yong in Singapore to a newly opened account in Hong Kong under her sole name, was on Monday jailed for 22 months by a Hong Kong court.
Her sentence for money laundering is longer than the 15-month jail term handed down to her husband by a Singapore district court, or, for that matter, any of the others implicated in criminal offences following a high-profile scandal over the mismanagement of the NKF.
On was expressionless on hearing the sentence.
She was whisked away by guards immediately and did not have a chance to talk to her husband in court.
When approached by The Straits Times for comment, Mr Yong shook his head wordlessly. One of On's lawyers added: 'Please leave.'
District Court judge Andrew Chan accepted the argument of On's counsel that the money she moved was not generated from illegal activities such as drug trafficking or prostitution.
However, the judge noted that the case involved a 'substantial sum of money' that was 'removed from its rightful owner'.
Part of the money she moved is what Mr Yong owes the NKF after admitting liability in a civil suit brought by the charity.
'She came to Hong Kong solely for the purpose of committing the present crime,' said the judge. 'Hong Kong was being used as a transit port for channeling proceeds of the fraud
HONG KONG - ON SHU Kio, the wife of former National Kidney Foundation chairman Richard Yong, has become the biggest casualty in the fallout over the long-running NKF saga - despite not being linked to the running of the charity.
On, 66, who had admitted moving 1.28 million pounds from her joint account with Mr Yong in Singapore to a newly opened account in Hong Kong under her sole name, was on Monday jailed for 22 months by a Hong Kong court.
Her sentence for money laundering is longer than the 15-month jail term handed down to her husband by a Singapore district court, or, for that matter, any of the others implicated in criminal offences following a high-profile scandal over the mismanagement of the NKF.
On was expressionless on hearing the sentence.
She was whisked away by guards immediately and did not have a chance to talk to her husband in court.
When approached by The Straits Times for comment, Mr Yong shook his head wordlessly. One of On's lawyers added: 'Please leave.'
District Court judge Andrew Chan accepted the argument of On's counsel that the money she moved was not generated from illegal activities such as drug trafficking or prostitution.
However, the judge noted that the case involved a 'substantial sum of money' that was 'removed from its rightful owner'.
Part of the money she moved is what Mr Yong owes the NKF after admitting liability in a civil suit brought by the charity.
'She came to Hong Kong solely for the purpose of committing the present crime,' said the judge. 'Hong Kong was being used as a transit port for channeling proceeds of the fraud
