Yeung is accused of handling the proceeds of crime over a seven-year period before buying control of Birmingham City for 81.5 million pounds ($130 million) in 2009. The case comes to trial as the number of suspicious transaction reports filed to Hong Kong authorities by banks and others required to do so doubled to 23,282 last year from a decade ago.  Article

“It seems that larger and larger sums are being converted in money laundering,” Judge Esther Toh said in January in a separate case when she sentenced a Chinese high-school dropout to 10 and a half years in prison for laundering HK$13 billion through a Hong Kong bank over eight months.