HONG KONG, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal on Thursday overturned a lower court ruling against pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s conviction and sentence for a fraud offence.
Lai was sentenced in December 2022 to five years and nine months in jail after being found guilty of breaching the lease terms of his Apple Daily newspaper’s headquarters by concealing the operation of a private company, Dico Consultants Ltd, in the building.
(Reporting by Jessie Pang and James Pomfret; Editing by Anne Marie Roantree and Jacqueline Wong)
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