A former Hong Kong prosecutor resigned from her position before being named as a target of US sanctions last November, the city’s Department of Justice (DoJ) has said. “The DoJ usually does not comment on movement of individual officers, however, in order to set the record straight, the DoJ would like to point out that the officer concerned had submitted the resignation in September last year,” a statement issued on Saturday read. Senior Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Alice Chan, the prosecutor in question, was named last November in a bill to sanction 49 Hong Kong judges, prosecuto…
