Hong Kong (EFE) the young woman, whose case has shocked the former colony.
Former husband Alex Wong, his parents and older brother, arrested last weekend, appeared in court today charged with murder and perverting the course of justice.
The court’s senior prosecutor, Brian Lai Tak-ki, requested a 10-week adjournment to continue the investigation, including forensic examinations of evidence seized from the home where the remains were found and a follow-up to the cell phone conversation records of the accused.
Investigators have found new remains of the victim in the last hours in the rental house on the outskirts of the city where the first signs of the crime were found, according to local media reports.
A team of forensic pathologists identified this Sunday in that building a skull, several ribs and hair immersed in a large pot with broth and vegetables.
According to police, the remains also belonged to Choi, who was reported missing on Wednesday.
Two days after the disappearance, the authorities found the woman’s legs in a refrigerator in a house recently rented by her ex-father-in-law, whom the investigation points to as the mastermind of the plot to assassinate her because of a dispute over a property valued at millions of dollars. dollars, according to the local press.
Police, who sent dozens of officers and even a scuba diving team to search for Choi’s head, hands and other parts of his body, seized a meat slicer, an electric saw and some clothing allegedly related to the home. the case.
Choi, who had almost 100,000 followers on Instagram, had become internationally known as a model, even participating in Elie Saab’s spring-summer 2023 haute couture show in Paris and recently appearing on the digital cover of the luxury magazine ‘ L’Officiel Monaco’.
The model, according to local media, had a net worth of about 100 million Hong Kong dollars (12 million euros, 12.7 million US dollars) and came from a wealthy family with businesses in China.
The authorities indicated that the two children Choi had with her ex-husband will remain in the custody of the model’s mother.
