Ex-Chinese official’s son remanded in Hong Kong over HK$64m money laundering case

The son of a former mainland Chinese official has been remanded in custody in Hong Kong pending sentence for laundering more than HK$64 million, including a 4 million yuan bribe his father allegedly sought from a merchant a decade ago. Xiao Rui, 37, will also be penalised for using bogus bank records to deceive the Immigration Department into granting him the right of abode in Hong Kong through a cash-for-residency scheme in 2013. The District Court on Tuesday rejected Xiao’s assertion that he..