Ex-RTHK officer and two others guilty of fraud over $740,000 job orders
2005-3-24
A former officer of Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) and two directors of a company, charged by the ICAC, were today (Thursday) convicted at District Court of fraud in relation to the awarding of over $740,000 worth of job orders for RTHK projects.
Cheung Kin-man, 27, former Project Co-ordinator of RTHK; Ho Yuen-yi, 34, and Yu Siu-kei, 35, both directors and shareholders of C'est La Pomme De Terre Co. Ltd. (CLPDT), were found guilty of a joint charge of conspiracy to defraud.
Ho and Yu were also found guilty of 11 counts of forgery, while Ho alone was further found guilty of eight similar offences.
Deputy Judge Browne adjourned the case until next Tuesday (March 29) to continue delivering his verdict, and remanded the defendants in the custody of the Correctional Services Department.
The defendants were arrested by the ICAC during a corruption inquiry last year.
At the time of the offences, Cheung was employed by RTHK, while Ho was also a contract staff of RTHK. Yu was the owner of a production company called Feng Shui.
Cheung, Ho and Yu faced a joint charge of conspiracy to defraud RTHK by falsely representing that the quotations submitted by CLPDT, Feng Shui, 50M and Ling's Production for prospective RTHK projects were genuinely competitive ones, obtained through a com petitive process, and were prepared separately from and independently of each other.
As a result of the false quotations, RTHK had been deceived into granting the job orders for the said projects to CLPDT or Feng Shui.
Ho and Yu were further convicted of 11 joint charges of forgery by making false quotations of 50M for various RTHK jobs.
Ho alone was found guilty of eight similar offences of making false quotations of Ling's Production for other RTHK jobs.
ICAC enquiries revealed that job orders for the projects concerned were worth more than $740,000.
The fraud and forgery offences took place between December 2000 and December 2002.
The prosecution was today represented by Christopher Coghlan, counsel on fiat, assisted by ICAC officer Dickens Wong.
Cheung Kin-man, 27, former Project Co-ordinator of RTHK; Ho Yuen-yi, 34, and Yu Siu-kei, 35, both directors and shareholders of C'est La Pomme De Terre Co. Ltd. (CLPDT), were found guilty of a joint charge of conspiracy to defraud.
Ho and Yu were also found guilty of 11 counts of forgery, while Ho alone was further found guilty of eight similar offences.
Deputy Judge Browne adjourned the case until next Tuesday (March 29) to continue delivering his verdict, and remanded the defendants in the custody of the Correctional Services Department.
The defendants were arrested by the ICAC during a corruption inquiry last year.
At the time of the offences, Cheung was employed by RTHK, while Ho was also a contract staff of RTHK. Yu was the owner of a production company called Feng Shui.
Cheung, Ho and Yu faced a joint charge of conspiracy to defraud RTHK by falsely representing that the quotations submitted by CLPDT, Feng Shui, 50M and Ling's Production for prospective RTHK projects were genuinely competitive ones, obtained through a com petitive process, and were prepared separately from and independently of each other.
As a result of the false quotations, RTHK had been deceived into granting the job orders for the said projects to CLPDT or Feng Shui.
Ho and Yu were further convicted of 11 joint charges of forgery by making false quotations of 50M for various RTHK jobs.
Ho alone was found guilty of eight similar offences of making false quotations of Ling's Production for other RTHK jobs.
ICAC enquiries revealed that job orders for the projects concerned were worth more than $740,000.
The fraud and forgery offences took place between December 2000 and December 2002.
The prosecution was today represented by Christopher Coghlan, counsel on fiat, assisted by ICAC officer Dickens Wong.