Computer technician Dicky Sze Ho-chun walks out of the Kowloon city law court building, Hong Kong, April 6, 2009. [Photo: Asianewsphoto]Related: A Seemingly Endless ScandalA computer technician accused of accessing private and intimate photos of entertainer Edison Chen and distributing them on the Internet has pleaded not guilty to three counts of obtaining access to a computer with a view to making a dishonest gain.
Dicky Sze Ho-chun, 24, is alleged to have copied thousands of images of Canto pop star Edison Chen Koon-hei engaged in sexual acts with actresses and celebrities, including Gillian Chung, Cecilia Cheung, Bobo Chan and Rachel Ngan.
Prosecutor Hayson Tse said that Sze's colleague, named Tse, saved the computer data from Chen's laptop on an external hard disk drive as backup when Chen took his machine to Elite Multimedia Ltd for repair between 2005 and 2006.
Sze allegedly copied the photos from the hard drive to a computer server connected to the Internet.
The lewd images were widely circulated on the Web in January, 2008. Sze was arrested on Feb 2 for distributing obscene articles but denied the charge.
"I didn't distribute the celebrity nude photos but I know my colleague repaired Chen's computer around Oct 2006," Sze was quoted as saying.
However, 11 of the photos were recovered from Sze's personal computer last year.
Tse added that Sze showed the images to two employees, Fanny Choi and Janet Leung, at a household store, which employed Elite Multimedia to service its computer.
The prosecutors quoted Choi and Leung saying that Sze told them how he accessed the images. The women said Sze gave them a CD containing 1,300 erotic pictures.
Choi and Leung will be called to testify today(April 7).
Chief Magistrate Tong Man also heard Chen's deposition, taken in Canada, in February.
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