Leadership Post: Ordeal Tsang and Office Conviction

leadership post: But on Wednesday he was exonerated by the Court of Final Appeal which quashed his misconduct in public office conviction, ending a seven-year legal ordeal, according to The Japan Times. Tsang, who was released from jail in January on health grounds, was not present in court for Wednesday's verdict. Tsang was jailed in 2017 after being found guilty of failing to disclose his plans to lease a luxury flat from a major investor in a broadcaster, which was later granted a licence from the government while he was leader. ; The 74-year-old, who held the leadership post of chief executive for seven years from 2005, was the most senior city official ever to be convicted in a criminal trial and the highest-ranking one to be put behind bars. But he issued a statement. My heart is filled with gratitude, Tsang said, adding much of his savings had been swallowed up by the court cases. Seven years of tangled legal battles have finally ended. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.