Cleaning services provider admits bribing garbage truck driver
2021-5-4
A cleaning services provider of a private residential building, charged by the ICAC, today (May 4) admitted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts that he had offered bribes to a garbage truck driver for collecting additional garbage.
Sze Pui-yeung, 62, self-employed cleaning services provider, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to offer advantages to an agent, contrary to Section 9(2)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance and Section 159A of the Crimes Ordinance.
Principal Magistrate Mr Peter Law Tak-chuen adjourned the case to May 21 for sentence, pending background and community service order reports. The defendant was granted cash bail.
The court heard that in 2012, the defendant was engaged by a private residential building in Chai Wan to provide cleaning and garbage disposal services. He further engaged Kan Kee Cleaning Services Company Limited (Kan Kee) to send a garbage truck to collect garbage from the building every night. According to the agreement, Kan Kee was required to collect about 15 bags of garbage every day. Should there be additional garbage, the defendant would pay Kan Kee additional service fee.
About mid-2017, the defendant began to provide garbage disposal services for another premises adjacent to the building. Without informing Kan Kee, the defendant put around 10 bags of garbage collected from that premises at the building every night. But it was found out by a driver of Kan Kee.
Between June 2017 and February 2018, the defendant offered bribes totalling about $7,600 to the driver of Kan Kee for disposing of those additional garbage for him.
Kan Kee had rendered full assistance to the ICAC during its investigation into the case.
The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Chin Sing-yue.
Sze Pui-yeung, 62, self-employed cleaning services provider, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to offer advantages to an agent, contrary to Section 9(2)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance and Section 159A of the Crimes Ordinance.
Principal Magistrate Mr Peter Law Tak-chuen adjourned the case to May 21 for sentence, pending background and community service order reports. The defendant was granted cash bail.
The court heard that in 2012, the defendant was engaged by a private residential building in Chai Wan to provide cleaning and garbage disposal services. He further engaged Kan Kee Cleaning Services Company Limited (Kan Kee) to send a garbage truck to collect garbage from the building every night. According to the agreement, Kan Kee was required to collect about 15 bags of garbage every day. Should there be additional garbage, the defendant would pay Kan Kee additional service fee.
About mid-2017, the defendant began to provide garbage disposal services for another premises adjacent to the building. Without informing Kan Kee, the defendant put around 10 bags of garbage collected from that premises at the building every night. But it was found out by a driver of Kan Kee.
Between June 2017 and February 2018, the defendant offered bribes totalling about $7,600 to the driver of Kan Kee for disposing of those additional garbage for him.
Kan Kee had rendered full assistance to the ICAC during its investigation into the case.
The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Chin Sing-yue.