In a written reply to the independent committee examining the estate fire, the former chair of Wang Fuk Court’s owners’ corporation called scrutiny of proxy votes involving former district councillor Peggy Wong Pik-kiu “political suppression”.
Residents had accused Wong of receiving proxy votes during a committee hearing. The committee disclosed that Wong and her team had collected 279 proxy votes across two owners’ corporation meetings, one of which selected a consultant company.
He said proxy votes at owners’ meetings had often outnumbered attendees, including at earlier annual and special meetings. Owners had told him they delegated their votes because shouting and disruption at meetings put them off attending.
He accused people of diverting attention and presenting complainants as righteous, but said he believed Wong would stick to the facts and help owners get what they sought.
HK01 reported that a file listing units from which Wong collected proxy votes showed a proxy vote recorded for an owner who had died 11 months before the meeting, raising suspicion of forgery.