Man sentenced for promoting illegal bookmaking on horse racing
2023-2-6
A man charged by the ICAC was today (February 6) sentenced at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts after pleading guilty to two charges that he had promoted bookmaking involving illegal bets placed on horse racing totalling over $29,000. The offences were revealed in the course of a corruption investigation by the ICAC.
Fung Chi-sing, 59, was sentenced by Magistrate Miss Minnie Wat Lai-man to two months’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, and fined $5,000.
The defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of promoting or facilitating bookmaking or betting with a bookmaker, contrary to section 16B(1) of the Gambling Ordinance. The offences respectively took place between April and July 2017, and between February and March 2020.
The ICAC investigation arose from a corruption complaint. It was revealed that during the above two periods, Fung promoted bookmaking by transmitting bets on horse racing totalling over $29,000 to a bookmaker for three punters.
In the same investigation, a Police Sergeant and a person who had been respectively charged by the ICAC with offences of fraud and betting with a bookmaker and offences of bookmaking were convicted and sentenced at court earlier. In addition, another person who had been charged with offences of bookmaking had his case adjourned to next month for mention at the District Court.
The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Ho Cheuk-wing.
Fung Chi-sing, 59, was sentenced by Magistrate Miss Minnie Wat Lai-man to two months’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, and fined $5,000.
The defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of promoting or facilitating bookmaking or betting with a bookmaker, contrary to section 16B(1) of the Gambling Ordinance. The offences respectively took place between April and July 2017, and between February and March 2020.
The ICAC investigation arose from a corruption complaint. It was revealed that during the above two periods, Fung promoted bookmaking by transmitting bets on horse racing totalling over $29,000 to a bookmaker for three punters.
In the same investigation, a Police Sergeant and a person who had been respectively charged by the ICAC with offences of fraud and betting with a bookmaker and offences of bookmaking were convicted and sentenced at court earlier. In addition, another person who had been charged with offences of bookmaking had his case adjourned to next month for mention at the District Court.
The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Ho Cheuk-wing.