‘A pack of lies’: Abby Choi’s mother rejects claims Kwong family repaid her debts
Por Brian Wong — South China Morning Post – News feed
Advertisement Abby Choi – murder of a model Hong Kong Law and Crime ‘A pack of lies’: Abby Choi’s mother rejects claims Kwong family repaid her debts
Cheung Yin-fa says she gambled up to HK$100,000 at mahjong parlours for ‘entertainment’, but denies debts ever led to debt collectors harassing her family
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Brian Wong Published: 3:27pm, 12 Oct 2026 Updated: 4:25pm, 12 Oct 2026
The mother of slain Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung has denied in court that she was repeatedly in debt because of gambling, calling her former son-in-law’s claim that he had financially supported her “a pack of lies”.
Cheung Yin-fa accused Alex Kwong Kong-chi on Monday of acting unscrupulously by demanding the return of HK$150,000 in shopping expenses she owed him, while failing to repay any of the more than HK$70 million he had received from Choi for investment.
Testifying in the High Court for a fifth day, Cheung also rejected the defence’s suggestion that she was so addicted to mahjong that Choi had to pledge a property she received as a wedding gift to secure a HK$4 million mortgage to repay her mother’s debts.
Cheung appeared emotional as she responded to the defence’s contention that Kwong, who said he had run a restaurant in mainland China and worked as a parallel betting agent in Macau, had helped repay her debts and supported her over the years.
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