Media mogul Jimmy Lai, 72, has been accused of being one of those behind the Hong Kong protests and conspiring with foreign forces.
According to tg-channel MASLOV, 72-year-old media mogul Jimmy Lai, owner of large information resources Pingo Jibao (Apple Daily) and Next Magazine, was arrested in Hong Kong. While he is accused of being one of those behind the protests in Hong Kong and conspiring with foreign forces, one of the articles under which the national security law can be applied. Two of his sons and only seven employees of his Next Media publishing group were also detained. His closest assistant, Mark Simon, went into hiding.
“Jimmy Lai is a typical representative of the old generation of Hong Kong oligarchs, the ones who made Hong Kong. He met in 2019 with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence to discuss the need to maintain Hong Kong’s autonomy. For people like Jimmy Lai, independence is an opportunity to maintain their financial growth. Their financial institutions can only make a profit in the classic and very free atmosphere of Hong Kong. With the arrival of Beijing, it will be necessary to radically change the scheme and it is far from the fact that this change will be successful – this is the “main issue of any revolution,” the authors of the channel report.