Two former executives of Hong Kong’s Next Digital media group have filed a legal challenge against global accounting firm BDO, accusing it of helping city authorities to liquidate the company founded by jailed pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai. A court in late 2021 ordered the winding-up of Next Digital Limited, which Lai founded in 1990 as the parent company of Apple Daily. It has since then been controlled by liquidators appointed by authorities. The court order came after police raids on Apple Daily’s newsroom and the freezing of HK$18 million in Next Digital assets in June 2021. Lai was charg…
