London/Hong Kong — Hong Kong’s securities watchdog has failed to secure convictions in its largest investigation after a key figure in the city’s so-called nefarious networks was cleared of charges.                     

Cho Kwai-chee, founder of Hong Kong’s largest private health-care group, was found not guilty of defrauding the stock exchange and investors in financial brokerage firm Convoy Global Holdings, where he had been a director. He was also cleared of charges involving the publishing of false statements in Convoy’s annual accounts...

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