The ICAC has arrested five persons, including a Police Constable (PC), for two alleged bribery scams in connection with the fixing up of a company's internal investigation and a Police criminal damage case.

The other four arrestees were two security detectives and a security officer of a chained store company; and a property agent.

The first case arose from a corruption complaint, alleging that the security officers of a chained store company had conspired with the PC to solicit and accept bribes from a sales supervisor of a subsidiary of the company.

ICAC enquiries revealed that the three security staff had allegedly conspired with the PC to solicit $140,000 from the sales supervisor to "fix-up" an internal investigation of false accounting against him, which was to be referred to the Police.

The PC and two security detectives were arrested in an ambush operation early yesterday morning after they had allegedly accepted $17,000 marked money from the sales supervisor.

Enquiries also revealed that $10,000 had earlier been paid to the arrestees, while the $17,000 was believed to be a second payment.

During the arrest of the PC and the two security detectives, a quantity of suspected No. 4 heroin worth about $40,000 was found and seized from the PC's private car.

Meanwhile, the PC was also alleged to have solicited and accepted $50,000 from a nightclub hostess to fix up a Police criminal damage case against her.

The property agent was alleged to have provided a loan at an excessive rate to the nightclub hostess to pay the PC.

The five arrestees have been released on bail, pending further enquiries.