{{Short description|Hong Kong politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Chim Pui-chung | native_name = {{nobold|詹培忠}} | native_name_lang = zh-hk | image = Tsim Pui Chung.JPG | image_size = 180px | caption = Chim in 2008 | office = Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong | term_start1 = 9 October 1991 | term_end1 = 30 June 1997 | predecessor1 = ''New constituency'' | successor1 = ''Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council'' | constituency1 = Financial Services | term_start2 = 21 December 1996 | term_end2 = 30 June 1998<br />(Provisional Legislative Council) | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | constituency2 = | term_start3 = 1 July 1998 | term_end3 = 9 September 1998 | predecessor3 = ''New parliament'' | successor3 = Fung Chi-kin | constituency3 = Financial Services | term_start4 = 1 October 2004 | term_end4 = 30 September 2012 | predecessor4 = Henry Wu | successor4 = Christopher Cheung | constituency4 = Financial Services | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1946|9|24|df=yes}} | birth_place = Chaozhou, Guangdong, China | death_date = | death_place = | party = | other_party = | occupation = Company director | spouse = Ly Kim-chau | alma_mater = | nickname = Angry Man from Teochew ({{lang|zh-hant|潮州怒漢}}) }} '''Chim Pui-chung''' (born 1946 in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China) served a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), representing the Financial Services Functional Constituency. He is director of several companies.<ref>[http://www.legco.gov.hk/general/english/members/yr04-08/cpc.htm Hon CHIM Pui-chung] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226015613/http://www.legco.gov.hk/general/english/members/yr04-08/cpc.htm |date=2008-02-26 }}</ref>
==Political career== Chim was a legislative councillor from 1991 until he was jailed for conspiring to forge documents in 1998, whereupon he was impeached and disqualified as a legislator by Legco.<ref>[http://legalref.judiciary.gov.hk/lrs/common/ju/ju_body.jsp?DIS=3934 Hong Kong/SAR Court of Appeal]</ref><ref>[http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=2d334a63cc536310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=&s=News Long Hair impeachment bid rests on Civic Party], SCMP, 22 Mar 2012</ref> He was released from prison in 1999. In 2004, he was re-elected unopposed as legislative councillor for the financial services constituency. In 2008 he was again elected.<ref>[http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1178&Itemid=32 Hong Kong's Bureaucrats and the Stock Exchange]</ref>
In 2005, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Hong Kong Chief Executive election, receiving only 21 nominations from the Election Committee, less than the minimum requirement of 100.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2005_June_6/ai_n13831081 Front-runner in H.K. leadership race kicks off campaign]</ref> As a result, Donald Tsang was declared the uncontested winner.<ref>[http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050619_2.htm Beijing loyalist clinches victory in Hong Kong.]</ref>
== Career == In November 2021, he was charged with fraud, along with his son, Ricky Chim Kim-lun, and Wong Pei Li.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cheng |first1=Selina |title=Hong Kong ex-lawmaker Chim Pui-chung and son charged by corruption watchdog |url=https://hongkongfp.com/2021/11/20/hong-kong-ex-lawmaker-chim-pui-chung-and-son-charged-by-corruption-watchdog/ |work=Hong Kong Free Press |date=20 November 2021}}</ref>
== Family == His son, Ricky Chim Kim-lun, is a member of the Election Committee and is also an honorary consul of Papua New Guinea.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cheng|first=Selina|date=2021-11-19|title=Hong Kong ex-lawmaker Chim Pui-chung and son charged by corruption watchdog|url=https://hongkongfp.com/2021/11/20/hong-kong-ex-lawmaker-chim-pui-chung-and-son-charged-by-corruption-watchdog/|access-date=2021-11-21|website=Hong Kong Free Press HKFP|language=en-GB}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-par|hk}} {{s-new|constituency}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of Legislative Council|district=Financial Services |years=1991–1997}} {{s-non|reason=Replaced by Provisional Legislative Council}} {{s-new|parliament|rows=2}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of Provisional Legislative Council|years=1997–1998}} {{s-non|reason=Replaced by Legislative Council}} {{s-break}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of Legislative Council|district=Financial Services |years=1998}} {{s-aft|after=Fung Chi-kin<!--馮志堅-->}} {{s-bef|before=Henry Wu<!--胡經昌-->}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of Legislative Council|district=Financial Services|years=2004–2012}} {{s-aft|after=Christopher Cheung}} {{s-end}}
{{Candidates in the Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 2005}}
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