The Treasury alerts public to fraudulent emails
The Treasury today (September 2) alerted members of the public to fraudulent emails purportedly issued by the Treasury. Although the emails showed a sender address identical to the Treasury's email address (pa@try.gov.hk) used to issue remittance advices, the emails were not sent by the Treasury. The emails seek to obtain recipients' login credentials by inviting them to open an attachment, which was said to be a remittance advice issued by the Treasury.
The Treasury has no connection with the emails and has reported the case to the Police for further investigation.
The Treasury reminded members of the public not to open suspicious emails and attachments provided in such emails. The Treasury will not send emails to the public to collect their login credentials.
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Remarks by S for S at media session on Lai Chee-ying case
Following are theremarksmadebytheSecretary for Security, Mr Tang Ping-keung, at a mediasession on the Lai Chee-ying case thisafternoon (December 15):
Reporter: Firstly, regarding the verdict of this case, does this mean the cases surrounding Apple Daily have officially concluded and there will be no more prosecution in this regard? Secondly, regarding this case attracting heavy international media and political attention, are you worried that this verdict will draw further international sanctions towards Hong Kong, particularly from US President Donald Trump? Thank you.
Secretary for Security: First of all, I do not comment on individual suspects or organisations. For whatever criminal cases, including those relating to national security, if we have evidence, we will arrest (those suspects). If we have sufficient evidence, we will prosecute (suspects). No one is above the law. Regarding the international concerns of this case, I think a lot of foreign consulate staff attending the trial throughout are the witnesses of how open and fair this trial is.
I think this illustrates these kinds of activities, happening in any country, if someone uses the media to try to overturn a regime, I think this is not bearable by every government. I think this case illustrates how safe Hong Kong is and how we are able to interdict all the national security concerns and all the attempts to affect the national security. I think this is a good showcase to show that Hong Kong is safe and it is safe to do investments in Hong Kong.
Reporter: How do you make sure today's verdict does not affect freedom of the press in Hong Kong?
Secretary for Security: First of all, the verdict states very clearly that this is nothing to do with the freedom of press in this case. It is solely because of Lai Chee-ying's utilising of Apple Daily as a platform to advocate his hatred against the Government and his plot to try to overturn our CPG's (Central People's Government) regime.
(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the remarks.)
