{"id":777015205,"date":"2024-05-03T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T12:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777015205"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:36:00","slug":"let-group-appoints-3-independent-non-executive-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/let-group-appoints-3-independent-non-executive-directors","title":{"rendered":"LET Group appoints 3 independent non-executive directors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tou Kin Chuen and John Lo Wai Tung have returned to their roles after resigning in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Hong Kong.-\u00a0<strong>LET Group Holdings<\/strong>\u00a0has announced through a company filing that <strong>Tou Kin Chuen<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>John Lo Wai Tung\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Johnson Fu Chi King<\/strong>\u00a0have\u00a0been appointed\u00a0as\u00a0independent\u00a0non-executive\u00a0directors from May\u00a02. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having served since 2012, Tou Kin Chuen and Lo Wai Tung had resigned in January in protest against subsidiary Summit Ascent\u2019s decision to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/summit-ascent-to-sell-tigre-de-cristal-licence-for-us116m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sell wholly-owned G1 Entertainment<\/a>, which possesses a gaming licence for\u00a0Tigre de Cristal in Russia to Dalnevostochniy Aktiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tou Kin Chuen has been appointed\u00a0as<strong> chairman of the audit committee<\/strong> and a member of the remuneration committee, nomination committee and risk management committee. John Lo Wai Tung has been appointed\u00a0as chairman of the remuneration committee and a member\u00a0of the audit committee, nomination committee and risk management committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Johnson Fu Chi King has\u00a0been appointed<strong> chairman of the nomination committee<\/strong>, and a member the audit committee, remuneration committee and risk management committee. He\u00a0<strong>served as non-executive director of ZZ Capital International <\/strong>from March 2019 to April 2020. He also worked for Hang Seng\u00a0Bank,\u00a0and is a former executive director and chief executive of Hang Seng Bank (China).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/let-summit-ascent-halt-trading-amid-tigre-de-cristal-sale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the company suspended trading<\/a>\u00a0amid a\u00a0Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) investigation.\u00a0Trading will remain suspended until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tou Kin Chuen and John Lo Wai Tung have returned to their roles after resigning in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777013862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"LET Group Holdings has reappointed Tou Kin Chuen and John Lo Wai Tung as independent non-executive directors, who previously resigned in protest over the sale of subsidiary G1 Entertainment and its Tigre de Cristal gaming license. Johnson Fu Chi King has also been appointed to the board. The company's shares remain suspended on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange amidst an ongoing Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) investigation.","focusai_entities":"Tou Kin Chuen, John Lo Wai Tung, Johnson Fu Chi King, LET Group Holdings, Summit Ascent, G1 Entertainment, Tigre de Cristal, Dalnevostochniy Aktiv, ZZ Capital International, Hang Seng Bank, Hang Seng Bank (China), Securities and Futures Commission, SFC","focusai_location":"Hong Kong, Russia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"SFC Investigation Impact?","query":"What are the specific allegations of the SFC investigation into LET Group Holdings, and how might they impact the company's operational licenses or future M&A activities?"},{"label":"Board Governance Influence?","query":"How will the reappointed independent non-executive directors, given their prior protest resignation, influence future strategic decisions regarding asset divestitures or capital allocation within LET Group Holdings?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[24197],"class_list":["post-777015205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-let-group-holdings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777015205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777015224,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015205\/revisions\/777015224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777013862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777015205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777015205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777015205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}