By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-01-09 12:14:56 | Updated at 2025-01-09 21:49:52
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Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency has charged a senior official from the securities watchdog with obstructing justice by offering advice to individuals involved in an investigation linked to China Gas Industry Investment Holdings Company.
Deng Yingxia, 48, former associate director of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) assigned to the market misconduct team of the enforcement division, is facing one count of conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice.
She has been released on bail and will appear in Eastern Court on Friday, according to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).
The SFC had been investigating suspected false trading and market manipulation activities related to China Gas Industry Investment Holdings Company, an industrial gas supplier operating in Hebei province.
Deng had access to confidential information from the investigation, although she was not directly involved in the investigative work. She was prohibited from disclosing this confidential information to unauthorised parties, an ICAC spokesman said.
It is alleged that between July 15 and 27, 2022, the defendant had conspired with a subject of the investigation to pervert the course of public justice.
