Eight persons charged for forging passports and loan fraud
2000-5-3
Eight persons, including a former trade representative of an East African country, were charged by the ICAC today (Wednesday) for allegedly forging passports and defrauding loans from finance companies.
The eight defendants will appear at 9:30 am in South Kowloon Court tomorrow (Thursday) .
They are Patrick Loo Hung-fat, 49, formerly employed by the Trades and Travel Department of the Republic of Comoros; Chapman Leung Kin-man, 36, unemployed; Lingo Fung Chi-cheung, 48, manager of a trading company; Yu Yan-tim, 49, insurance agent; Chan Lap- keung, 49, partner of Cavendish System Incorporated Limited; Hitchcock Lai Fu-kuen, 35, partner of Maxcorp Pacific Corporation; Lau Yuk-wing, 40, agency manager; and Tang Wing-kit, 27, unemployed.
Loo and Leung jointly face one count of conspiring to make a forged Hong Kong Identity Card, a Home Visit Permit and false travel documents, including a British National (Overseas) passport, a Republic of Comoros passport, a Thailand passport and a Philip pine passport.
Loo, Leung and Fung are accused of conspiring with other persons unknown to dishonestly obtain $50,000 from a person known as “ Hak Chai ” by falsely representing that Fung could provide “ Hak Chai ” with forged travel documents.
Loo, Leung, Yu, Chan, Lai, Lau and Tang are accused of conspiring to defraud a number of finance companies to release loans to unqualified borrowers by submitting false employment letters, salary cheques and false information regarding the residence of t he unqualified borrowers and the identity of the referees.
The alleged offences took place between October 10 and November 3 last year.
The eight were arrested in November last year after the ICAC smashed a syndicate which helped unqualified applicants to obtain personal loans from finance companies with false employment records.
The syndicate allegedly charged each applicant about 10 per cent to 20 per cent of the loans obtained as a " commission " .
The ICAC had earlier received information alleging that employees of various finance companies had taken bribes in return for approving loan applications. Investigations revealed alleged passport and loan scams.
The defendants have been released on bail, pending their court appearances tomorrow.
The eight defendants will appear at 9:30 am in South Kowloon Court tomorrow (Thursday) .
They are Patrick Loo Hung-fat, 49, formerly employed by the Trades and Travel Department of the Republic of Comoros; Chapman Leung Kin-man, 36, unemployed; Lingo Fung Chi-cheung, 48, manager of a trading company; Yu Yan-tim, 49, insurance agent; Chan Lap- keung, 49, partner of Cavendish System Incorporated Limited; Hitchcock Lai Fu-kuen, 35, partner of Maxcorp Pacific Corporation; Lau Yuk-wing, 40, agency manager; and Tang Wing-kit, 27, unemployed.
Loo and Leung jointly face one count of conspiring to make a forged Hong Kong Identity Card, a Home Visit Permit and false travel documents, including a British National (Overseas) passport, a Republic of Comoros passport, a Thailand passport and a Philip pine passport.
Loo, Leung and Fung are accused of conspiring with other persons unknown to dishonestly obtain $50,000 from a person known as “ Hak Chai ” by falsely representing that Fung could provide “ Hak Chai ” with forged travel documents.
Loo, Leung, Yu, Chan, Lai, Lau and Tang are accused of conspiring to defraud a number of finance companies to release loans to unqualified borrowers by submitting false employment letters, salary cheques and false information regarding the residence of t he unqualified borrowers and the identity of the referees.
The alleged offences took place between October 10 and November 3 last year.
The eight were arrested in November last year after the ICAC smashed a syndicate which helped unqualified applicants to obtain personal loans from finance companies with false employment records.
The syndicate allegedly charged each applicant about 10 per cent to 20 per cent of the loans obtained as a " commission " .
The ICAC had earlier received information alleging that employees of various finance companies had taken bribes in return for approving loan applications. Investigations revealed alleged passport and loan scams.
The defendants have been released on bail, pending their court appearances tomorrow.