Senior Immigration Assistant faces misconduct charges
2005-11-9
A Senior Immigration Assistant of the Immigration Department has been charged by the ICAC for alleged misconduct in public office over the unauthorized use of the Department’s arrival and departure chops on the travel documents of a number of Mainlanders to facilitate their unlawful stay in Hong Kong.
Ngai Chi-keung, 37, will appear at the Kowloon City Magistracy at 9:30 am tomorrow (Thursday) on seven counts of misconduct in public office, and one of possession of identity cards relating to other persons.
Ngai, currently on ICAC bail, is alleged to have wilfully and intentionally culpably misconducted himself in the course of his public office between December 2004 and April 2005.
He is alleged to have created false arrival and departure records in respect of seven Mainlanders, thereby causing them to extend their stay in Hong Kong illegally.
Ngai is also alleged to have had in his possession, on April 29, 2005, two Hong Kong Identity Cards relating to other persons without lawful authority or reasonable excuse.
The case was a referral from the Immigration Department, alleging that an officer of the Department might have accepted advantages from a syndicate for facilitating two-way permit holders to extend their stay in Hong Kong unlawfully.
A Mainlander, originally detained by Immigration Department, was subsequently charged by the ICAC with offences of conspiracy to offer advantages to an officer of the Immigration Department and another immigration offence. He pleaded guilty and was jailed for seven months.
Ngai, along with a Hong Kong shop-owner and a number of Mainlanders, was arrested in a joint operation by the ICAC and the Immigration Department in April this year.
The Immigration Department subsequently charged the shop-owner with being the employer of persons not lawfully employable, and seven of the Mainlanders for breaching their conditions of stay. All were sentenced to terms of imprisonment.
Ngai Chi-keung, 37, will appear at the Kowloon City Magistracy at 9:30 am tomorrow (Thursday) on seven counts of misconduct in public office, and one of possession of identity cards relating to other persons.
Ngai, currently on ICAC bail, is alleged to have wilfully and intentionally culpably misconducted himself in the course of his public office between December 2004 and April 2005.
He is alleged to have created false arrival and departure records in respect of seven Mainlanders, thereby causing them to extend their stay in Hong Kong illegally.
Ngai is also alleged to have had in his possession, on April 29, 2005, two Hong Kong Identity Cards relating to other persons without lawful authority or reasonable excuse.
The case was a referral from the Immigration Department, alleging that an officer of the Department might have accepted advantages from a syndicate for facilitating two-way permit holders to extend their stay in Hong Kong unlawfully.
A Mainlander, originally detained by Immigration Department, was subsequently charged by the ICAC with offences of conspiracy to offer advantages to an officer of the Immigration Department and another immigration offence. He pleaded guilty and was jailed for seven months.
Ngai, along with a Hong Kong shop-owner and a number of Mainlanders, was arrested in a joint operation by the ICAC and the Immigration Department in April this year.
The Immigration Department subsequently charged the shop-owner with being the employer of persons not lawfully employable, and seven of the Mainlanders for breaching their conditions of stay. All were sentenced to terms of imprisonment.