A former sales manager of a computer hardware firm was convicted at the District Court today (Monday) of offering various computer hardware equipment in exchange for purchase orders.

A former assistant technical services manager of a company which bought from the computer hardware firm was also found guilty of accepting six items of computer equipment worth $110,000, which included a scanner, a printer, a projector and a CD writer.

Chan Ka-po, 32, of Expert System Company Limited (ESCL), and Yeung Hok-bun, 38, of Gap International Sourcing Limited (Gap), were convicted of a total of 20 charges, ranging from false accounting, conspiracy to defraud, to offering and accepting advantage s.

Judge Saunders adjourned sentencing until 9:30 am tomorrow (Tuesday) and remanded the defendants in the custody of the Correctional Services Department.

The court heard that as a sales manager, Chan was not allowed to receive direct commissions from any individual sales that he procured or assisted in procuring. But he was entitled to have a commission based on the total sales generated by his team.

However, Chan instructed each of six salespersons in his team to return 50 per cent to 70 per cent of the commissions to him.

Chan had also supplied Yeung with computer equipment as an inducement to Yeung's placing orders with ESCL on behalf of Gap.

The items of computer equipment were found at Yeung's home after his arrest.

Yeung admitted under caution that he accepted the computer equipment from Chan, and in return placed purchase orders with him.

Also found at Yeung's home were a hard disk, a 17-inch monitor and a Pentium II Processor. Yeung had obtained these items by creating misleading documents which caused Gap to unknowingly pay for them.

The offences took place between December 10, 1996 and October 31, 1998.

The prosecution was today represented by Senior Government Counsel Alex Lee, assisted by ICAC officer Michael Chan.