Ao Man Fu dies at hospital

Ao Man Fu, the younger brother of disgraced secretary for Transport and Public Works Ao Man Long, who was sentenced for five years in jail for money laundering, passed away at the detention ward of the Conde de São Januário Hospital (CHCSJ) at 11.55 pm on Sunday.
According to a Macau Prison press statement released yesterday, the 51-year-old inmate, a Macau resident surnamed Ao, had been suffering with diabetes before he entered the prison.
A source closed to the family confirmed to the Macau Daily Times it was Ao Man Fu.
The statement said the inmate was diagnosed with “a variety of ailments” when he was in the cell, and a number of different specialists from the CHCSJ were arranged to treat him.
In February 2010, his right leg was amputated due to gangrene caused by diabetes. But his symptoms of diabetes deteriorated afterwards and he was admitted to the hospital again on November 3.
The Macau Prison said the cause of death was believed to be diabetes-related complications, but it can only be confirmed after the autopsy is conducted.
Social workers of the prison had immediately notified his family on that night and went to the hospital with them.
Ao Man Fu was arrested in December 2006 but was only sentenced in 2008. In other words, his five-year sentence would end in December 2011.
He and three other family members were charged with money laundering as they were found to have aided the former transport and public works secretary Ao Man Long, who got 28-and-half years in jail and was found guilty of taking bribes, corruption, money laundering and abuse of power.
Despite Ao Man Fu’s attempt to leave prison on parole, his application was turned down by the First Instance Court in April this year and again by the Second Instance Court three months later in July.
However, his 86-year-old father Ao Veng Kong was released on parole in June this year, having completed two-thirds of his four-year jail sentence.