Four more charged for alleged insurance fraud with 'staged' car crash
2002-1-25
The ICAC further charged four people allegedly involved in a spate of "staged" traffic accidents intended to swindle insurance claims.
The case arose from a corruption complaint alleging that some insurance assessors might have been bribed to facilitate false claims of motor insurance. ICAC investigations later revealed a series of well-organised insurance scams involving deliberate car crash incidents.
Eight had been charged earlier in relation to the investigation. They received sentences up to 38 1/2 months in jail after pleading guilty.
Appearing in Tsuen Wan Court today were Ng Ting-fai, 32, proprietor of the now defunct Tune Up Auto Centre; Yan Chun-ming, 39 and Yip Hoi-shan, 32, both garage worker; and Wong Man-chung, 31, driver, on one joint charge of conspiracy to defraud and nine a lternative charges.
No pleas were taken. Magistrate Mr Andrew Ma adjourned the case to February 8, 2002, pending transfer to the District Court.
The defendants were accused of conspiring to defraud officers of the Hong Kong Police Force by prejudicing them in the exercise of their public duties and various insurance companies, by dishonestly:
- deliberately damaging certain motor vehicles;
- falsely making reports to the Hong Kong Police Force that there were accidents involving those motor vehicles;
- falsely making insurance claims for damages sustained by those vehicles; and
- falsely causing various insurance companies to pay compensation.
The defendants also faced a total of nine alternative charges of conspiracy to defraud.
Such charges alleged them of conspiring with various persons to defraud officers of the Hong Kong Police Force and various insurance companies to make false insurance claims.
They were said to have falsely made a number of reports to the Police that there were traffic accidents occurring at Castle Peak Road, Tai Loong Street, Kwok Shui Road, Sam Tung Uk, Wo Yi Hop Road, Hung To Road and Chai Wan Kok Street.
The alleged offences took place between October 1996 and July 1998.
The defendants were granted bail of $10,000 to $20,000 in cash, and were ordered to surrender their travel documents, not to leave Hong Kong, not to interfere with prosecution witnesses and report to Police three times a week.
The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Kevin Choi.
The case arose from a corruption complaint alleging that some insurance assessors might have been bribed to facilitate false claims of motor insurance. ICAC investigations later revealed a series of well-organised insurance scams involving deliberate car crash incidents.
Eight had been charged earlier in relation to the investigation. They received sentences up to 38 1/2 months in jail after pleading guilty.
Appearing in Tsuen Wan Court today were Ng Ting-fai, 32, proprietor of the now defunct Tune Up Auto Centre; Yan Chun-ming, 39 and Yip Hoi-shan, 32, both garage worker; and Wong Man-chung, 31, driver, on one joint charge of conspiracy to defraud and nine a lternative charges.
No pleas were taken. Magistrate Mr Andrew Ma adjourned the case to February 8, 2002, pending transfer to the District Court.
The defendants were accused of conspiring to defraud officers of the Hong Kong Police Force by prejudicing them in the exercise of their public duties and various insurance companies, by dishonestly:
- deliberately damaging certain motor vehicles;
- falsely making reports to the Hong Kong Police Force that there were accidents involving those motor vehicles;
- falsely making insurance claims for damages sustained by those vehicles; and
- falsely causing various insurance companies to pay compensation.
The defendants also faced a total of nine alternative charges of conspiracy to defraud.
Such charges alleged them of conspiring with various persons to defraud officers of the Hong Kong Police Force and various insurance companies to make false insurance claims.
They were said to have falsely made a number of reports to the Police that there were traffic accidents occurring at Castle Peak Road, Tai Loong Street, Kwok Shui Road, Sam Tung Uk, Wo Yi Hop Road, Hung To Road and Chai Wan Kok Street.
The alleged offences took place between October 1996 and July 1998.
The defendants were granted bail of $10,000 to $20,000 in cash, and were ordered to surrender their travel documents, not to leave Hong Kong, not to interfere with prosecution witnesses and report to Police three times a week.
The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Kevin Choi.