HKFS controversy | No one at office and no dissolution statement posted; Lai Cheuk-yin says HKFS has been impersonated more than once
學聯風波｜會址無人、沒貼解散聲明 賴卓賢：學聯不止一次被冒認
A purported “same-day dissolution statement” issued in the name of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) circulated on Wednesday afternoon (11th). It said HKFS Council chairman and Lingnan University Students’ Union member Lai Cheuk-yin, along with Ng Tai-lam and others, had been arrested on charges including theft, and alleged that the two had changed the signatories to the HKFS bank account without authorisation and would dissolve HKFS that day. After the statement was issued, Lai said that evening that the seal on it was forged. The Collective visited HKFS’s former office in Mong Kok on Thursday (12th), but found no one inside. Lai reiterated in an interview that someone had impersonated HKFS in issuing the statement, and that this was not the first time someone had impersonated the federation. He did not rule out reporting the matter to the police. Responding to questions about HKFS’s recognition and legitimacy, he said that, including its response to the fake statement, it was still consulting student organisations at other institutions, and he did not believe HKFS had lost its role or standing.
周三（11日）下午流傳一紙以香港專上學生聯會（學聯）名義發出的「即日解散聲明」，指學聯代表會主席、嶺大學生會賴卓賢、吳泰霖等涉盜竊等罪名被捕，指兩人人未經學聯批准，更改學聯戶口簽名，要即日解散學聯。該聲明發出後，賴卓賢即晚表明，有關聲明印章屬假冒。《集誌社》周四（12日）到訪學聯原本位於旺角的會址，無人在內。賴卓賢受訪時重申，有人假冒學聯發聲明，且非首次有人冒認，不排除報警。他回應學聯認受性問題指，包括今次就假聲明回應在內，仍有諮詢其他院校學生組織意見，不認為學聯已失卻角色地位。