Secretly discarding shredded paper documents such as finances, accounts, membership dues, etc., Hong Kong "Journalist Association" was exposed to destroy evidence
[Global Times Special Correspondent in Hong Kong, Ye Lan] The anti-China Association of Education and the Chinese People's Front and other organizations disbanded, while the Hong Kong Journalists Association, which sheltered pornographic media and fake reporters, is still struggling and destroying relevant evidence.
Hong Kong media said on the 23rd that the Secretary for Security, Deng Bingqiang, in an interview a few days ago reprimanded the "Journalist Association" for taking the lead in politics and wooing "student reporters" into the association, which violated professionalism. At the same time, he called on the "Journalist Association" to disclose member information and accounts.
In the evening when the interview was published, some readers found the staff of the organization in the Wan Chai office of the "Journalist Association" sneakily holding two large white garbage bags and used lunch boxes, and discarded them on the building's back stairs. It is not ordinary garbage, but documents shredded by a paper shredder.
After reorganization, the Hong Kong media discovered that the "Journalist Association" attempted to destroy financial evidence. One of the shredded papers clearly read the words "Student Member Changed into Full Member".
The "Journalist Association" claimed that the organization had 486 effective members, including 331 full members and 56 student members.
However, it can be seen from the shredded paper that the "Journalist Association" is suspected of using student members to refill the number, which makes people question how many of its official members are true full-time reporters.
The shredded paper was also found to involve accounts, checks, membership dues and other information, covering multiple local banks, and the signature of the person who handled it was the same as the name of a former chairman of the "Journalist Association".
In addition, the so-called "Reporter Protection Fund" established by the "Journalists Association" during the "Regulation Amendment Disturbance" in 2019 is also full of doubts.
According to "Sing Tao Daily", the "Journalist Association" claimed that the fund provided support to journalists involved in journalism and involved in legal proceedings. In fact, the funding targets were quite generous, not limited to members of the "Journalist Association" or frontline workers. , And the source of donors is doubtful. The actual fund-raising figure is more than three times higher than the predetermined target. Its nature is the same as the "612 Fund" and it is a "riot fund", suspected of money laundering and even more serious problems.
The "Keepers Association" is under the supervision of the "Trade Unions Regulations".
No person shall be a member of any registered trade union unless he ordinarily resides in Hong Kong and is engaged in or employed in an industry, industry or occupation directly related to any registered trade union.
However, in the current executive committee of the "Journalist Association", there is an affiliate member, a public relations member and a student member.
In May 2020, a 13-year-old and a 16-year-old who claimed to be underage student reporters of "Shen Xue Media" were taken back to the police station.
The "Journalist Association" actually said, "They just hope to be at the forefront of history, and they don't think there is a mistake, and students have the right to interview."
Fu Jianci, vice chairman of the Hong Kong Law Exchange Foundation, directly pointed out that the "Journalist Association" intends to destroy evidence and does not rule out the crime of obstructing justice.
He questioned the organization's unclear accounts and that destroying evidence was a guilty conscience, and called on law enforcement agencies to conduct a thorough investigation as soon as possible.
A Hong Kong media commented on the 23rd that journalists who normally do news do not bother to be associated with the "Journalist Association". Its membership is pitifully small, mainly from anti-Chinese media such as "Apple Daily". Since the "Apple Daily" collapsed, There are even fewer members.
Deng Bingqiang questioned the "Journalist Association" for recruiting students to join the association, and hit its pain point.
Let's talk about the accounting problem. If these financial transactions are normal, legal, and visible, why should they be "destroyed" overnight?
The article said that Hong Kong is a society under the rule of law. "Freedom of the press" is by no means a shield to evade guilt, and it is by no means that the "Journalist Association" will close the stalls.
A comment published in the "Toutiao Daily" stated that there are tens of thousands of Hong Kong journalists, with a small proportion of 300 or 400 people. Even students are executive committee members. What is the representativeness of the "Journalist Association"?
During the "black riots", the organization often falsely claimed that the police used violence against reporters, but regardless of what is true reporters, fake reporters, and black reporters, in the name of "press freedom", it allowed mobs to pretend to be reporters to obstruct law enforcement. "We are waiting. The Security Bureau revealed its financial sources, and the true identity of the Association will soon be revealed."