The Macau Court of Last Instance sentenced former Deputy Prosecutor Kong Chi to 26 years in prison for crimes of corruption, prevarication and abuse of power after rejecting his appeal.
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14/11/2026
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Lusa
O Macau Court of Last Instance raised from 24 to 26 years the prison sentence applied to former Deputy Prosecutor Kong Chi for crimes of corruption, prevarication and abuse of power.
According to a statement released on Friday, the TUI rejected an appeal from Kong Chi but accepted, in part, the arguments of the prosecutor (MP) and another defendant, lawyer Ho Kam Meng.
As a result, the TUI found the former Deputy Prosecutor guilty of another 52 crimes of prevarication and a crime of passive corruption for unlawful act, of which the Court of Second Instance (TSI) had acquitted Kong Chi.
No further appeal of this decision of the last instance is possible.
This is the second time Macau's justice has aggravated the sentence applied to the former deputy prosecutor. By March, the IST had already raised Kong Chi's sentence from 21 to 24 years in legal prison.
Originally, the former deputy prosecutor was originally sentenced to a single 17-year sentence by the Macau Court of First Instance in January 2024, in a case in which he was accused of helping people escape justice.
Justice also decided to lose, in favour of the Macau authorities, assets held by Kong Chi worth 14 million patacas (EUR 1.5 million), considering them “of unknown origin”.
The judges considered that the money came from bribes, disguised as “honors or consulting fees”, paid to the couple of entrepreneurs in the money exchange business Choi Sao Ieng and Ng Wai Chu.
The TUI also increased on Friday the sentence applied to Choi Sao Ieng, from 16 years and nine months to 17 years in prison. Also lawyer Ho Kam Meng was sentenced to 17 years in prison, two more than in the previous decision.
In this case, Portuguese lawyer Kuan Hoi Lon was also involved, who both the IST and the first instance absolved all crimes.
In 2017, former prosecutor Ho Chio Meng, who led Macau’s MP from the transition from Portugal’s administration to China in 1999 to 2014, was sentenced to 21 years in prison for several crimes, including fraud, money laundering and criminal association.