Hong Kong film producer Raymond Wong has been found guilty of insider trading, profiting over HK$1 million. He was convicted of providing confidential information to his sister for stock trades.

Hong Kong film producer and actor Raymond Wong Pak-ming has been found guilty of sharing insider information with his sister to trade shares of an entertainment company he chaired in 2017, bringing her more than HK$1 million (US$127,650) in profit. Magistrate Ko Wai-hung of Eastern Court on Friday found Wong had made “absurd and illogical” explanations for his messages to younger sister Jenny Wong, ruling he had knowingly tipped her to buy shares in Transmit Entertainment, a television series...