{"id":2820,"date":"2014-08-29T19:07:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T19:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2014-08-29T19:07:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T19:07:15","slug":"media-tycoon-critical-of-china-is-visited-by-hong-kong-antigraft-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/media-tycoon-critical-of-china-is-visited-by-hong-kong-antigraft-agency","title":{"rendered":"Media Tycoon Critical of China Is Visited by Hong Kong Antigraft Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">By ALAN WONG \u00a0AUG. 28, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/29lai-tmagSF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2821\" alt=\"29lai-tmagSF\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/29lai-tmagSF-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/29lai-tmagSF-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/29lai-tmagSF.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leaked documents suggest Jimmy Lai <!--more-->made substantial donations to pro-democracy politicians in Hong Kong. Credit Alex Hofford\/European Pressphoto Agency<\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG \u2014 Officers from the anticorruption agency in Hong Kong searched the home of the media tycoon Jimmy Lai on Thursday morning, a month after leaked documents suggested that he had made substantial donations to local pro-democracy parties and politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lai is an outspoken supporter of the democracy movement in Hong Kong, whose newspaper, Apple Daily, is frequently critical of the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Mr. Lai\u2019s house, the agency also searched the apartment of his top aide, Mark Simon. The office and the apartment of Lee Cheuk-yan, a legislator who received donations from Mr. Lai, were also searched Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A person who identified himself as a shareholder of Mr. Lai\u2019s media group, Next Media, sent a trove of leaked documents to Hong Kong newspapers last month, including images of banking receipts. They indicated that several pro-democracy groups and individuals received more than $1.3 million in donations last year through Mr. Simon. Lawmakers from a pro-Beijing party later filed reports to the legislature and the anticorruption agency calling for a formal investigation of the matter.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/29\/world\/asia\/media-tycoon-critical-of-china-is-visited-by-hong-kong-antigraft-agency.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ALAN WONG \u00a0AUG. 28, 2014 Leaked docum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/media-tycoon-critical-of-china-is-visited-by-hong-kong-antigraft-agency\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,370],"tags":[440,824,823,477],"views":3708,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}