新闻来源：www.wsj.com
原文地址：A Warning to Business in Hong Kong
新闻日期：2024-09-12
美国国务院最新发表的言论认为，香港正在逐渐模仿中国共产党的做法。紧随其后的是两个商人公开指控会计firm BDO与香港政府合作，帮助政府将苹果日报（由现在被监禁的黎智英创办）逼停。
国务院毫不含糊地指出，“香港和中华人民共和国之间的国家安全法相似，加上香港对中央政府的自治权不断减少，这些都造成了之前主要存在于中国大陆的风险现在也危及到香港的企业和个人。”
三天后，戈登·克鲁维茨（前《华尔街日报》出版人）和马克·克利福德（前《环球时报》董事）给出了一个例子。两个商人在去年12月向经济合作与发展组织提交了投诉书，指控BDO违反了该组织的责任业务实践标准，帮助政府压制新闻媒体。
BDO香港分公司的总经理陈文耀在2021年7月被任命为“财务检查员”。他根据职权从与《环球时报》相关的律所拿走了文件，并要求公司董事进行录音访谈——这一切无需法院命令，且有法律诉讼的威胁。政府随后便以BDO的调查结果为依据，将《环球时报》总公司拍卖了出去。
原文摘要：
Hong Kong is becoming more like Communist China, according to the latest word from the State Department. And no sooner had State issued its warning than two businessmen made public their complaint that the accounting firm BDO had partnered with the Hong Kong government to put a nail in the coffin of Apple Daily—the newspaper founded by the now imprisoned Jimmy Lai.State didn’t mince words. “Similarities between Hong Kong’s and the PRC’s national security laws, combined with Hong Kong’s diminishing autonomy from the central government of the PRC, create new risks for businesses and individuals in Hong Kong that were previously limited to mainland China,” it said.Three days later, Gordon Crovitz (a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal) and Mark Clifford, like Mr. Crovitz a former director of the Hong Kong media company Next Digital (Apple Daily’s parent), gave an example. The two made public a complaint they filed in December with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. They accuse BDO of violating OECD guidelines for responsible business practices by helping the government suppress a newspaper.Clement Chan, a managing director of BDO’s Hong Kong branch, was appointed “financial inspector” by the government in July 2021. Using those powers, he seized papers from a law firm associated with Next Digital and demanded company directors participate in recorded interviews—all without a court order and under pain of prosecution. The government then used BDO’s investigation as cover to liquidate Next Digital.
