Ex-security supervisor of public housing estate and daughter admit salary fraud
2021-6-24
A former security supervisor of a public housing estate and her daughter, charged by the ICAC, today (June 24) admitted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts that they had conspired to defraud a property management company of salary payments totalling about $37,000 by falsely representing that the daughter had worked as a security guard at the estate.
Yang Mulan, 52, former security supervisor of Creative Property Services Consultants Limited (CPS); and Yang’s daughter Ko Wai-ling, 22, former security guard of CPS, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud, contrary to Common Law.
Principal Magistrate Mr Peter Law Tak-chuen adjourned the case to July 14 for sentence, pending community service order and background reports. The defendants were granted cash bail.
The ICAC investigation arose from a corruption complaint. Subsequent enquiries revealed the above offence.
The court heard that at the material time, CPS was the management services provider of Sai Wan Estate, a public housing estate in Kennedy Town. Yang and her daughter Ko lived together at a unit in the estate.
Since April 2015, Yang had been employed by CPS as a security supervisor. She was responsible for manpower arrangement of security guards at Sai Wan Estate. All security guards were required to record their attendance when reported on and off duty. Their attendance records countersigned by Yang would be submitted to CPS for calculation of monthly salaries.
Through the introduction of Yang, Ko was employed by CPS as a full-time security guard deployed to the estate in late December 2019. At the same time, Ko was a full-time waitress of a restaurant in Kennedy Town.
CPS required Ko to work six days per week and perform eight hours of security duty per day. However, ICAC enquiries revealed that Ko only reported on and off duty at Sai Wan Estate and did not perform her duty.
Yang countersigned Ko’s attendance records even though she knew her daughter did not perform any duty, and the arrangement misled CPS to believe that Ko had performed her duty as required.
In the belief that the attendance records of Ko were genuine and accurate, CPS released salary payments totalling about $37,000 to Ko, the court heard.
CPS had rendered full assistance to the ICAC during its investigation into the case.
The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Frankie Chow.
Yang Mulan, 52, former security supervisor of Creative Property Services Consultants Limited (CPS); and Yang’s daughter Ko Wai-ling, 22, former security guard of CPS, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud, contrary to Common Law.
Principal Magistrate Mr Peter Law Tak-chuen adjourned the case to July 14 for sentence, pending community service order and background reports. The defendants were granted cash bail.
The ICAC investigation arose from a corruption complaint. Subsequent enquiries revealed the above offence.
The court heard that at the material time, CPS was the management services provider of Sai Wan Estate, a public housing estate in Kennedy Town. Yang and her daughter Ko lived together at a unit in the estate.
Since April 2015, Yang had been employed by CPS as a security supervisor. She was responsible for manpower arrangement of security guards at Sai Wan Estate. All security guards were required to record their attendance when reported on and off duty. Their attendance records countersigned by Yang would be submitted to CPS for calculation of monthly salaries.
Through the introduction of Yang, Ko was employed by CPS as a full-time security guard deployed to the estate in late December 2019. At the same time, Ko was a full-time waitress of a restaurant in Kennedy Town.
CPS required Ko to work six days per week and perform eight hours of security duty per day. However, ICAC enquiries revealed that Ko only reported on and off duty at Sai Wan Estate and did not perform her duty.
Yang countersigned Ko’s attendance records even though she knew her daughter did not perform any duty, and the arrangement misled CPS to believe that Ko had performed her duty as required.
In the belief that the attendance records of Ko were genuine and accurate, CPS released salary payments totalling about $37,000 to Ko, the court heard.
CPS had rendered full assistance to the ICAC during its investigation into the case.
The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Frankie Chow.