Ferrida Chan secured an acquittal for the defendant in a USD 27.4 million money laundering case

In HKSAR v. Chuang Yun Lien (DCCC 153/2025), Ms Ferrida Chan represented a defendant charged with dealing with funds totalling USD 27,447,737.08 through a bank account. 

The Court accepted the defence’s submissions that, although the documents produced by the defendant did not correspond to every individual transaction in the account, they were nonetheless, taken as a whole, capable of supporting a business background that was plausibly true. The Court also accepted the submissions that the Prosecution had failed to elevate its case from one of merely suspicious transactions to one that inevitably pointed to the defendant knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe that the property represents criminal proceeds, thereby leaving a reasonable doubt in the Prosecution’s case. The defendant was accordingly acquitted.

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