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Boardroom battles, bribery, and kidnapping: Meet Hong Kong's richest family, who has lost over $2 billion since the protests began

Sep 4, 2019, 21:40 IST

Kwok Tak-seng was a cofounder of Sun Hung Kai and patriarch of the Kwok family.

Tak-seng built Sun Hung Kai into one of Hong Kong's largest property developers before he died of heart failure in 1990.

In 1997, Walter was kidnapped by a local gang leader who went by the name "Big Spender."

In 2008, Thomas and Raymond ousted Walter from Sun Hung Kai & Co after 18 years as its chairman.

Walter died in 2018 after a stroke.

Thomas served five years in prison for bribery, according to Bloomberg.

Raymond now serves as Sun Hung Kai's sole chairman.

The Kwok brothers rarely sit for interviews with the press and few details about their personal lives and are known to the public.

The brothers also have a close relationship with their mother, Kwong Siu-hing, according to The Straits Times.

The anti-government protests that have gripped Hong Kong for 12 weeks now threaten the family's fortune.

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