Recaps

After Zhou Quan dismantled the Red Thief Organization, he became Police Force Number One and reorganized the force while preparing to confront the DOA Foundation and the JC Group. A Yuezhou money-laundering investigation then brought Chiu Mei-yan, Tsui Yau-choi, and corrupt officials under scrutiny, with Hung Hing helping deliver suspects to the police.

• Zhou Quan interrogated Siu Chi Yan after police arrested him and his hacker courier, dismissed Siu’s threat about stolen Raw Material Spheres, and later learned that the seized spheres were ordinary uranium compounds.
• Zhou Quan’s officers completed the Red Thief operation, transferred the DC-8 parties to Mainland authorities, and uncovered an arms-smuggling route linked to Sophia, the Yi Family, and the JC Group.
• Zhou Quan ordered intelligence sharing with the Macau Judiciary Police and directed Luo Danian to seek the JC Group’s headquarters, while planning to approach Yi Tianxing through the DOA Foundation.
• Wong Bing Yiu presented Zhou Quan with his appointment as Acting Commissioner, and Mainland leadership later approved Zhou Quan as Police Force Number One as Lok Ming-wah became acting Secretary for Security.
• Zhou Quan took office, ordered the force to adopt Chinese-style drill, and appointed new department leaders while upgrading the Public Relations Department and Commercial Crime Bureau.
• Zhou Quan told Wong Fuk-wing to investigate the DOA Foundation, then agreed to help Hong Liang trace at least five billion in stolen Yuezhou funds allegedly being laundered on Hong Kong Island.
• Lau Bo-keung connected Chiu Mei-yan to a suspected money-laundering network involving Customs officer Di Weijie and Tsui Yau-choi’s finance company, while Zhou Quan ordered Chiang Tin-yeung to address the Hung Hing members involved.
• Chiang Tin-yeung sent Kam Tsz Tai to bring Tsui Yau-choi and his associates to Tai Kwun, and Kam and Usury Shing arranged to seize them at Sea Paradise as ICAC investigators followed.
• Luk Chi-lim redirected his investigators to examine Di Weijie, while Lau Bo-keung received Kam Tsz Tai and Usury Shing at Tai Kwun and acknowledged his old connection with Usury Shing.

Lau Bo-keung led a joint operation that arrested Zhang Peng and dismantled Wong Hoi-wo’s money-laundering network, uncovering its link to the DOA Foundation. Zhou Quan then set an undercover plan in motion, and Mainland operatives joined Lau’s investigation.

• Usury Shing persuaded Tsui Yau-choi and Ho Tai-shing to confess, while Yeung Ching-fuk agreed to cooperate with Lau Bo-keung and revealed Wong Hoi-wo’s plans and the frame-up of Luk Chi-lim.
• Lau Bo-keung secured Luk Chi-lim and Ching Tak-ming’s cooperation, then monitored Zhang Peng’s meeting with Wong Hoi-wo aboard the Eastern Divine Dragon and uncovered the plan to launder Zhang’s stolen ten billion yuan.
• Lau Bo-keung’s team intercepted Zhang Peng near Po Toi Island, arrested him, and apprehended Wong Hoi-wo, You Zixin, Chiu Mei-yan, and other suspects after the gambling ship returned to Hong Kong Island waters.
• Su Kin-chiu questioned Wong Hoi-wo, who admitted that the DOA Foundation would launder more than half of Zhang Peng’s money and named its leader as Mr. Gao, supposedly called Xiansheng.
• Lau Bo-keung and Su Kin-chiu briefed Zhou Quan, who decided to use New Wo Hing’s Tan Huanxi and Lee Family Jiayuan to approach the DOA Foundation and help the Police Force investigate it.
• Lau Bo-keung arranged for Tan Huanxi and Lee Family Jiayuan to infiltrate the Foundation, while police units prepared their operation and Yang Jianhua told Chan Kwok-wah that Mainland authorities were also investigating the organization.
• Yang Jianhua introduced undercover operative Luo Xin to Lau Bo-keung, who agreed to coordinate with the Mainland team while keeping Hong Kong Island Police in command of the joint operation.

The Police Force dismantled the Aether Society’s Hong Kong operation while Zhou Quan oversaw an internal review that led to prosecutions and a wave of senior retirements. He began reshaping the force’s leadership and considering candidates for promotion.

• Lau Bo-keung established Hong Kong Island Police Force leadership of the DOA Foundation operation, and Luo Xin briefed officers on its client meeting and secret underworld conference.
• Kung Ka-pui reported evidence linking So Sing-pak and five other suspects to the Aether Society, and Zhou Quan mobilized National Security and Customs support.
• Zhou Wangqing warned that the suspects’ rings could alert one another, so He Wenzhan ordered simultaneous arrests and searches while officers pursued a tonne of heroin.
• The Police Force arrested all six Aether Society core members, seized the heroin, and dismantled Yee Fung’s businesses, while Zhou Quan ordered the five members with influential European families prosecuted and authorized an international operation.
• Zhou Quan approved the internal review’s findings, sent implicated officers for prosecution, and arranged for Police Force management to select replacements for vacancies.
• He Lingyun applied for early retirement to make way for younger officers and asked Zhou Quan to look after Ho Wai-lam, which Zhou promised to do.
• Choi Yuen-kei, Tsang Heung-wing, and Deng Xuanwei also applied for early retirement, leaving four core management seats vacant.
• Zhou Quan and Lee Man-bun settled on Chow Sing Sing and Lau Kit-fai as acting Deputy Commissioners, then asked senior officers to recommend candidates for further promotion.
• Yin Xiaofeng recommended Kong Chi Lap, Mok Kam-chuen, and Cheuk King-chuen for promotion based on their personnel records.

Zhou Quan reshaped the Police Force before leaving a high-profile kidnapping investigation to East Kowloon officers, who rescued Huo Zhaotang and brought the suspects to trial. The case ended with Wong Kwan and Ho Wai-lok sentenced to life imprisonment, while Huo Zhaotang was arrested for perjury.

• Zhou Quan reorganized the Police Force, promoted new leaders including Jiang Ping and Du Wen, and oversaw the retirement of four senior officers.
• Lok Ming-wah told Zhou Quan that Huo Zhaotang had been kidnapped, and Zhou insisted the family use normal police procedures rather than seeking a private operation.
• Mrs. Fok went through Situ Jie, who authorized Cheung Tak Biu and Yuen Ka-bo to investigate Huo Zhaotang’s kidnapping and promised to take responsibility for the operation.
• Cheung Tak Biu and his team tracked down and arrested Ho Wai-lok, then forced him to reveal that Huo Zhaotang was being held at 143 Wan Li Street.
• Yuen Ka-bo led the rescue team to 143 Wan Li Street and brought Huo Zhaotang out safely, while Cheung Tak Biu warned his officers to stay within a moral bottom line.
• At the closed-door hearing, Huo Zhaotang denied knowing who had kidnapped him, but the prosecutor played a video in which his secretary confessed to conspiring with Ho Wai-lok and Wong Kwan.
• Jing Jinxian accused Huo Zhaotang of perjury, and court officers arrested him, and the jury convicted Wong Kwan and Ho Wai-lok on kidnapping and other charges, and the judge sentenced both to life imprisonment.