Alex Kwong Kong-chi

OVERVIEW & LEGAL HISTORY SUMMARY

Alex Kwong Kong-chi (born 1994) is an unemployed Hong Kong resident and the former husband of slain fashion model and socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung, with whom he shares two children. Kwong married Choi in 2014 at age 18. Throughout their marriage, Kwong was unemployed and financially dependent on Choi's family. Between 2013 and 2015, Kwong operated an online gold-trading scam, stealing HK$6.3 million worth of jewelry from seven victims. He was arrested but jumped bail in 2015, remaining a wanted fugitive for over seven years. Following their divorce, Choi continued to provide substantial financial support to Kwong and his family, including funding luxury purchases and housing in a HK$72.8 million Kadoorie Hill apartment. Following Choi's disappearance on February 21, 2023, police launched a citywide manhunt. On February 25, 2023, officers arrested Kwong at Tung Chung pier as he attempted to abscond to Macao via speedboat while carrying HK$500,000 in cash and HK$4 million in luxury watches. Kwong was formally charged with murder alongside his father, Kwong Kau, and brother, Anthony Kwong Kong-kit. In December 2023, prosecutors added a joint charge of preventing the lawful burial of a body. On June 19, 2024, Kwong pleaded guilty in Hong Kong District Court to six counts of theft and one count of jumping bail stemming from his 2013–2015 offenses, receiving a 3.5-year prison sentence. In September 2026, ahead of his murder trial, Kwong pleaded guilty to preventing the lawful burial of Choi's corpse while pleading not guilty to murder Kwong remains incarcerated serving his theft sentence while standing trial for murder in the High Court of Hong Kong before Deputy Judge Brian Keith. If convicted of murder, he faces a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.