Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was willing to provide “all kinds of help,” including a HK$1.5 million loan, to activists launching a global advertising campaign in June 2019, the mogul’s national security trial has heard. Prosecution witness Chan Tsz-wah, a paralegal that prosecutors alleged was a middleman who linked Lai with the Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong (SWHK) advocacy group, also said on Friday that veteran democrat Martin Lee connected him with the mogul’s personal assistant, Mark Simon. Chan agreed to testify against Lai after pleading guilty to conspiring to collude with …
