Health Inspector and former butcher sentenced for breaching P.B.O.
2000-3-28
A serving employee of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) and a former staff of the then Urban Services Department (USD), charged by the ICAC, were sentenced in separate cases today (Tuesday) for breaching the Prevention of Bribery Ordina nce.
In the first case, a Health Inspector II was put under probation for 12 months by Magistrate Mr Ian Candy at Eastern Court for soliciting and accepting unauthorised loans from restaurant and market stall operators.
Wong Hoi-wan, 28, who is serving in the FEHD, earlier pleaded guilty to three charges under Section 3 of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (P.B.O.).
Wong is responsible for licence and hygiene inspections of restaurants in Eastern District, Hong Kong. During an ICAC ambush operation in September last year, he was arrested red-handed when he accepted $5,000 from a restaurant operator.
Wong admitted that while being a Health Inspector of the USD in 1999, he had accepted loans totalling $9,500 from Hon Man-bor, Lau Pui-lam and Yu Yik-ming last year without the general or special permission of the Chief Executive.
The court heard that in 1999, Wong had solicited and accepted loans of $4,500 in total from Hon and Lau, respectively owner of Pak Lee Caf幨och in Sai Wan Ho and Cheong Fat Poultry Stall in Yiu Tung Market in Shaukeiwan. The loans had not been repaid.
On another occasion in August 1999, Wong went to Sun Chiu Kee Restaurant at Shaukeiwan Road following a complaint about the emission of excessive hot air from the restaurant. Wong asked Yu, the restaurant owner, to rectify the problem.
After conducting an inspection at Sun Chiu Kee on September 9, 1999, Wong solicited a $5,000 loan from Yu. Yu turned down his request and reported the matter to the ICAC.
Two days later, Yu met Wong in a fast food shop in Sheung Wan and gave him $5,000 as requested. Wong accepted the money, and was arrested after the meeting which was monitored by the ICAC.
In the second case, a former butcher was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and fined $10,000 by Magistrate Mr Ernest Lin at North Kowloon Court for making false entries in an attendance book to cover up his absence from duty.
Au Yeung-piu, 48, earlier pleaded guilty to five counts of using a document to mislead the Government of Hong Kong, contrary to Section 9(3) of the P.B.O.
The court heard that Au Yeung, while employed as a butcher at the then Cheung Sha Wa Abattoir, had on five occasions made false entries in a Government Attendance Book to purportedly show that he had performed his work duties respectively on March 16, May 26 and July 23, 1996, and June 22 and November 23, 1997.
He was in fact absent from duty and was either about to depart for, or was in the Mainland during his working hours on those dates.
In sentencing, the magistrate said the offences Au Yeung committed amounted to a breach of trust.
ICAC officers Grace Yee and Eric Ma appeared for the prosecution respectively in the two cases.
In the first case, a Health Inspector II was put under probation for 12 months by Magistrate Mr Ian Candy at Eastern Court for soliciting and accepting unauthorised loans from restaurant and market stall operators.
Wong Hoi-wan, 28, who is serving in the FEHD, earlier pleaded guilty to three charges under Section 3 of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (P.B.O.).
Wong is responsible for licence and hygiene inspections of restaurants in Eastern District, Hong Kong. During an ICAC ambush operation in September last year, he was arrested red-handed when he accepted $5,000 from a restaurant operator.
Wong admitted that while being a Health Inspector of the USD in 1999, he had accepted loans totalling $9,500 from Hon Man-bor, Lau Pui-lam and Yu Yik-ming last year without the general or special permission of the Chief Executive.
The court heard that in 1999, Wong had solicited and accepted loans of $4,500 in total from Hon and Lau, respectively owner of Pak Lee Caf幨och in Sai Wan Ho and Cheong Fat Poultry Stall in Yiu Tung Market in Shaukeiwan. The loans had not been repaid.
On another occasion in August 1999, Wong went to Sun Chiu Kee Restaurant at Shaukeiwan Road following a complaint about the emission of excessive hot air from the restaurant. Wong asked Yu, the restaurant owner, to rectify the problem.
After conducting an inspection at Sun Chiu Kee on September 9, 1999, Wong solicited a $5,000 loan from Yu. Yu turned down his request and reported the matter to the ICAC.
Two days later, Yu met Wong in a fast food shop in Sheung Wan and gave him $5,000 as requested. Wong accepted the money, and was arrested after the meeting which was monitored by the ICAC.
In the second case, a former butcher was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and fined $10,000 by Magistrate Mr Ernest Lin at North Kowloon Court for making false entries in an attendance book to cover up his absence from duty.
Au Yeung-piu, 48, earlier pleaded guilty to five counts of using a document to mislead the Government of Hong Kong, contrary to Section 9(3) of the P.B.O.
The court heard that Au Yeung, while employed as a butcher at the then Cheung Sha Wa Abattoir, had on five occasions made false entries in a Government Attendance Book to purportedly show that he had performed his work duties respectively on March 16, May 26 and July 23, 1996, and June 22 and November 23, 1997.
He was in fact absent from duty and was either about to depart for, or was in the Mainland during his working hours on those dates.
In sentencing, the magistrate said the offences Au Yeung committed amounted to a breach of trust.
ICAC officers Grace Yee and Eric Ma appeared for the prosecution respectively in the two cases.