Ex-HK legislator rejects account freeze explanation Bloomberg Former Hong Kong legislator Ted Hui (許智峯) has stepped up his criticism of HSBC after the bank’s chief executive Noel Quinn reached out to him personally to explain why the lender froze his accounts after he fled the territory for the UK. In a Facebook post on Sunday, which included a photograph of part of the letter he received from Quinn, Hui wrote that HSBC had “failed to provide the legal basis” for freezing his accounts and those of his family members, and did not explain why his family was also “collectively punished.”