Ex-RTHK employee and two others sentenced for fraud over $740,000 job orders
2005-4-12
A former employee of Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) and two directors of a company, charged by the ICAC, were today (Tuesday) sentenced at District Court for fraud and forgery in relation to the awarding of over $740,000 worth of job orders for RTHK pr ojects.
Cheung Kin-man, 27, a former Project Co-ordinator of RTHK, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, suspended for two years, by Deputy Judge Kevin Browne.
Ho Yuen-yi, 34, and Yu Siu-kei, 35, both directors and shareholders of C'est La Pomme De Terre Co. Ltd. (CLPDT), were each jailed for nine months, suspended for two years.
The defendants were earlier found guilty on a joint charge of conspiracy to defraud.
Ho and Yu were also convicted on 11 counts of forgery, while Ho alone was further found guilty on eight similar offences.
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.
The court heard that since 1999, CLPDT or Feng Shui had been awarded various production jobs by RTHK.
Between December 2000 and December 2002, Cheung, Ho and Yu conspired 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, obtain ed through a competitive process, and prepared separately from and independently of each other.
50M and Ling's Production had never authorized any person to issue those quotations to RTHK.
As a result of the false quotations, RTHK had been deceived into granting 11 job orders for the projects to CLPDT and one job order to Feng Shui.
The court heard that between December 2000 and August 2002, Ho and Yu had made 11 false quotations of 50M for various RTHK jobs.
Between March 2001 and December 2002, Ho alone had made eight false quotations of Ling's Production for other RTHK jobs, the court was told.
ICAC enquiries revealed that job orders for the projects concerned were worth more than $740,000.
The prosecution was today represented by Christopher Coghlan, counsel on fiat, assisted by ICAC officer Dickens Wong.
Cheung Kin-man, 27, a former Project Co-ordinator of RTHK, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, suspended for two years, by Deputy Judge Kevin Browne.
Ho Yuen-yi, 34, and Yu Siu-kei, 35, both directors and shareholders of C'est La Pomme De Terre Co. Ltd. (CLPDT), were each jailed for nine months, suspended for two years.
The defendants were earlier found guilty on a joint charge of conspiracy to defraud.
Ho and Yu were also convicted on 11 counts of forgery, while Ho alone was further found guilty on eight similar offences.
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.
The court heard that since 1999, CLPDT or Feng Shui had been awarded various production jobs by RTHK.
Between December 2000 and December 2002, Cheung, Ho and Yu conspired 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, obtain ed through a competitive process, and prepared separately from and independently of each other.
50M and Ling's Production had never authorized any person to issue those quotations to RTHK.
As a result of the false quotations, RTHK had been deceived into granting 11 job orders for the projects to CLPDT and one job order to Feng Shui.
The court heard that between December 2000 and August 2002, Ho and Yu had made 11 false quotations of 50M for various RTHK jobs.
Between March 2001 and December 2002, Ho alone had made eight false quotations of Ling's Production for other RTHK jobs, the court was told.
ICAC enquiries revealed that job orders for the projects concerned were worth more than $740,000.
The prosecution was today represented by Christopher Coghlan, counsel on fiat, assisted by ICAC officer Dickens Wong.