Former Shatin DC member guilty of deceiving DC funds
2004-5-5
A former member of the Shatin District Council (DC), charged by the ICAC, was today (Wednesday) convicted of making false claims of expenditures totalling about $75,000 from Shatin DC.
Liu Huan-yee, 44, was found guilty of eight counts of false accounting at the Shatin Magistracy.
Magistrate Ms Merinda Chow adjourned sentencing until May 19, 2004, pending a background report. The defendant was remanded in the custody of the Correctional Services Department.
The case arose from a corruption complaint. ICAC inquiries uncovered the false accounting offences.
The court heard that Liu, in furnishing information for applications for reimbursement of expenses incurred at a number of activities organised by a working group of the Shatin DC, had dishonestly produced to Shatin DC and the Environmental Campaign Commi ttee accounting documents which to her knowledge were false.
Such accounting documents purportedly showed that the expenses stated therein had been incurred at the relevant activities and paid for by the working group.
ICAC investigation revealed that the expenses stated in such documents had been inflated by about $75,000 in total.
The offences took place between November 2000 and July 2002.
The prosecution was today represented by Paul Leung on a fiat, assisted by ICAC officer Dominic Leung.
Liu Huan-yee, 44, was found guilty of eight counts of false accounting at the Shatin Magistracy.
Magistrate Ms Merinda Chow adjourned sentencing until May 19, 2004, pending a background report. The defendant was remanded in the custody of the Correctional Services Department.
The case arose from a corruption complaint. ICAC inquiries uncovered the false accounting offences.
The court heard that Liu, in furnishing information for applications for reimbursement of expenses incurred at a number of activities organised by a working group of the Shatin DC, had dishonestly produced to Shatin DC and the Environmental Campaign Commi ttee accounting documents which to her knowledge were false.
Such accounting documents purportedly showed that the expenses stated therein had been incurred at the relevant activities and paid for by the working group.
ICAC investigation revealed that the expenses stated in such documents had been inflated by about $75,000 in total.
The offences took place between November 2000 and July 2002.
The prosecution was today represented by Paul Leung on a fiat, assisted by ICAC officer Dominic Leung.