Former community centre head charged for allegedly deceiving Employees Retraining Board of $160,000 allowances
2001-6-13
The ICAC has charged a former head of a community centre for allegedly deceiving the Employees Retraining Board (ERB) of about $160,000 in allowances and tutor fees by falsely representing that the girlfriend and the mother of his subordinate had taught r etraining courses.
Bonny Lee Tat-shing, 34, former person-in-charge of the Holy Carpenter Church Community Centre (HCCCC), will appear at 9:30 am in San Po Kong Court tomorrow (Thursday) on 25 charges. Lee is currently on ICAC bail.
The HCCCC is funded by the ERB to conduct employee retraining courses.
The case arose from a corruption complaint, alleging that Lee might have accepted advantages to allow his subordinate to inflate the cost of computer training courses to deceive ERB. ICAC enquiries revealed the alleged conspiracy offences.
Twelve of the charges alleged that Lee and Yiu Sai-hoi had submitted request forms to the HCCCC, falsely representing that Yiu’s mother Leung Kit-lei was entitled to $96,859 in tutor fees of Chinese computer courses, and reward, salary or commission as a part-time coordinator of summer tutorial classes.
Yiu, 32, former project manager of the HCCCC, worked under the direct supervision of Lee.
Nine other charges alleged Lee and Yiu of submitting request forms to the HCCCC, falsely representing that Yiu's girlfriend Leung Yuet-ming was entitled to $63,100 in placement and tutor fees for various training courses.
The remaining four charges alleged that Lee had conspired with Yiu to defraud the HCCCC by dishonestly concealing the interest of Yiu in Sun Way Office Systems (Sun Way) and of Lee and Yiu in the computer systems and/or computer classes provided to the HC CCC.
Sun Way, of which Yiu was a shareholder, rented computer sets to HCCCC for running training courses. The computer sets were purchased by Lee and Yiu.
The alleged offences took place between December 1996 and January last year.
Yiu had earlier pleaded guilty at District Court to 22 similar offences. His case was originally scheduled for sentencing today.
Judge Li today further adjourned sentencing until June 27, and granted Yiu cash bail of $60,000. He was also ordered to surrender his travel documents, not to leave Hong Kong, and to report to the ICAC once a week.
The prosecution was today represented by Senior Government Counsel Christal Chan, assisted by ICAC officer Alan Pang.
Bonny Lee Tat-shing, 34, former person-in-charge of the Holy Carpenter Church Community Centre (HCCCC), will appear at 9:30 am in San Po Kong Court tomorrow (Thursday) on 25 charges. Lee is currently on ICAC bail.
The HCCCC is funded by the ERB to conduct employee retraining courses.
The case arose from a corruption complaint, alleging that Lee might have accepted advantages to allow his subordinate to inflate the cost of computer training courses to deceive ERB. ICAC enquiries revealed the alleged conspiracy offences.
Twelve of the charges alleged that Lee and Yiu Sai-hoi had submitted request forms to the HCCCC, falsely representing that Yiu’s mother Leung Kit-lei was entitled to $96,859 in tutor fees of Chinese computer courses, and reward, salary or commission as a part-time coordinator of summer tutorial classes.
Yiu, 32, former project manager of the HCCCC, worked under the direct supervision of Lee.
Nine other charges alleged Lee and Yiu of submitting request forms to the HCCCC, falsely representing that Yiu's girlfriend Leung Yuet-ming was entitled to $63,100 in placement and tutor fees for various training courses.
The remaining four charges alleged that Lee had conspired with Yiu to defraud the HCCCC by dishonestly concealing the interest of Yiu in Sun Way Office Systems (Sun Way) and of Lee and Yiu in the computer systems and/or computer classes provided to the HC CCC.
Sun Way, of which Yiu was a shareholder, rented computer sets to HCCCC for running training courses. The computer sets were purchased by Lee and Yiu.
The alleged offences took place between December 1996 and January last year.
Yiu had earlier pleaded guilty at District Court to 22 similar offences. His case was originally scheduled for sentencing today.
Judge Li today further adjourned sentencing until June 27, and granted Yiu cash bail of $60,000. He was also ordered to surrender his travel documents, not to leave Hong Kong, and to report to the ICAC once a week.
The prosecution was today represented by Senior Government Counsel Christal Chan, assisted by ICAC officer Alan Pang.