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$$ .d""b. .d""b. HOE E'ZINE #1077
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$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ss$$ "The Day They Shot Big Spender"
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$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ by, Dinkee
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$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ 05/15/00
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$$ $$ "TssT" "TssT"
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i was having dinner and had come back to hong kong for a visit.
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apparently china had came to a decision and he was to be executed along
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with five other of his "gang". he was executed 15 minutes after the case
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was closed. as he was escorted out, he looked over to his father-in-law
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and nodded, handed an envelope to his lawyer, and off he went to the van
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that awaited him out back. this happened at 11:30am, apparently he was
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then shot at 11:48am. although, the official news of the case was not
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disclosed until 11:30pm that night. whether he was really shot is unknown.
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his body was not given back, and the family were not allowed to go near
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the site of where he was shot.
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Cheung Tze-keung, AKA Big Spender, was the richest man in Hong
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Kong or so i have been told. he is hong kong's equivalent to america's
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bonnie and clyde. what makes this story incredible is the fact that the
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crimes were done in hong kong. he was tricked into crossing the border
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after 1997 (after the hand-over) and captured by the chinese officials.
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and, with hong kong now belonging to china, even though hong kong is the
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S.A.R. (special administrative region) with its own laws, china had
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overrode the laws that hong kong had just to catch him and execute him.
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read the following article about it.
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By DAVID LAGUE, Herald Correspondent in Hong Kong
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A sensational trial in China of a crime boss who was paid ransom
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worth $US200 million ($340 million) after kidnapping two tycoons in Hong
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Kong has raised serious fears for the independence of the former British
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colony. Legal experts and pro-democracy lawmakers have condemned Hong
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Kong authorities for failing to seek the extradition from China of Cheung
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Tze-keung, alias Big Spender, and his accomplices to face trial in local
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courts for kidnapping, smuggling explosives and other serious alleged
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offenses they believe fall mainly outside the mainland's jurisdiction.
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They warn that there is now a dangerous precedent for mainland courts
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trying offenses allegedly committed in Hong Kong even before the handover
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to China on July 1 last year.
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The Hong Kong authorities, in turn, have attacked two of the
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city's highest-profile families for refusing to report the kidnappings of
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the property baron Mr Walter Kwok Ping-sheung and the businessman Mr
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Victor Li Tzar-kuoi, the son of a local magnate, Mr Li Ka-shing.
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The Hong Kong authorities have insisted they were powerless to act
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on extradition without evidence and argue that Cheung and his gang were
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being tried for offenses allegedly committed on the mainland.
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Cheung and several of his gang face execution if convicted in
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China. The Democratic Party chairman, Mr Martin Lee Chu-ming, has warned
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that the "one country - two systems" formula that guarantees Hong Kong's
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autonomy would be at risk if local and mainland authorities could not
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agree on a system of extraditing suspected offenders.
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He called on the Government to begin urgent talks with Beijing to
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solve the problem.
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"Until there is an acceptable arrangement governing the rendition
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of offenders between Hong Kong and mainland China, "one country - two
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systems' cannot be administered," he told local government radio.
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However, the outspoken Hong Kong barrister Mr Kevin Egan agreed
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that it was difficult for the Hong Kong authorities to take action
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without a complaint from the kidnap victims.
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He believed that Hong Kong police would be happy to see Cheung
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convicted in China where he would be executed with a shot to the back of
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the head. "The police won't mind," he said. "There won't be a problem
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with recidivism after the verdict, will there?"
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In an extraordinary trial now under way across the border from
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Hong Kong in the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court, Cheung has
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reportedly admitted that Mr Li Ka-shing paid $US134 million for the
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release of his son in 1996 and Mr Kwok's family $US77 million for the
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businessman's freedom in September last year.
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The court has heard evidence of a cross-border crime spree with
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Cheung, 44, known as Big Spender, for his flashy lifestyle, gambling and
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generosity to associates and friends, leading his gang back and forward
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between the mainland and Hong Kong before his arrest on the mainland
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earlier this year. Cheung and 35 others are on trial with the two
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kidnappings and the smuggling of 800 kilograms of explosives and
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detonators across the border into Hong Kong in January the major offences
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alleged against the crime boss.
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now, some believe that Li Ka-Shing had something to do with the
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capturing of big spender, as he has connections with the chinese officials.
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others believe one of his gang members had ratted him out. he's considered
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a hero in hong kong mainly because he was unfairly treated. he should have
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gone to trial in hong kong, as the crimes he was being accused of were
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done in hong kong. though, if he had been tried in hong kong, he would
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still be alive right now, sitting in a jail cell. the fact that china
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had overrode the laws of hong kong pissed lots of local people off.
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china came out after the case was closed and said, "this is a
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perfect example of how hong kong and china will be able to work as one".
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it's unknown if he was really shot, though, his wife went ahead and put a
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small tombstone somewhere in hong kong. there are talks about big
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spender being alive somewhere in china, as he probably paid the chinese
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officials to be free. there are two movies out about him, one before he
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was shot and the other after.
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about 4 months ago, one of the judges that was on the panel that
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sentenced the big spender to execution was "accidently" killed. the judge
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was sitting in the back middle seat of a car and a truck filled with big
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tree logs had bumped into the car and sent one of the tree logs to smash
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into the car, hitting the judge directly to the head and killing him
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instantly. the other passengers in the car survived with no damage.
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go figure who did it.
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i know he's alive. i can feel him alive. he can't be dead.
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i just won't allow it. his brilliance lives through me.
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[ (c) HOE E'ZINE -- http://www.hoe.nu HOE #1077, BY DINKEE - 5/15/00 ]
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