HongKong billionaire Thomas Kwok released from jail, heads home for dim sum
HONG KONG - What's the first thing a Hong Kong billionaire does when he's released from jail? Order dim sum, of course.
"The thing I want to do the most? Go home," 67-year-old Thomas Kwok said outside Stanley Prison after serving just over three years of his five-year sentence.The former co-chairman of Hong Kong's largest developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd, Kwok was found guilty in 2014 of conspiring to bribe the city's former No. 2 official Rafael Hui in exchange for favourable treatment for the company.
Kwok has a net worth of US$12.4 billion , making him Hong Kong's fifth-richest person alongside his younger brother Raymond Kwok, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index."There were a lot of changes in the company in the four years that I was absent," he said outside the prison, where he was met by his brother, son Adam and daughter Noelle.
"I need to catch up with the changes in the world and Hong Kong. I would like to visit other countries to study how to incorporate technology into the business," he said.
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