Speeches
Keynote Address by Attorney-General Lucien Wong S.C. at the 39th International Symposium on Economic Crime (ISEC)
9 September 2022
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Mr Chairman, Saul Froomkin QC, Co-Chairman Professor Barry A. K. Rider, distinguished speakers, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to express my sincere thanks to Professor Rider for inviting me again to deliver one of the keynote addresses for this Symposium. When I was here for the 37th Symposium in 2019, the atmosphere was slightly brighter and the spirits were a little higher. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic. No one could have foreseen that the pandemic would go on to devastate the world, upend lives and allow new forms of economic crime to flourish. The pandemic has shown us that, like the virus, crimes can evolve just as fast, ever ready to exploit new vulnerabilities.