Nine charged for alleged unauthorised checks on customers' data to help debt collecting business
2006-3-27
The ICAC has charged nine former employees of seven financial institutions for allegedly conducting unauthorised checks on customers' data for helping a syndicate in relation to its debt collecting business.
The nine defendants are Tse Yat-hoi, 32, former fraud prevention executive of Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited; Au Yeung Chuen, 42, former credit control manager of Citic Ka Wah Bank Limited; Sum Po-yin, 32, former senior clerk of Hang Seng Bank Limited; Man Kei-yui, 37, former collection assistant of DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited; Chin Chi-wai, 33, former client service representative of Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited; Chan Chi-kwong, 36, former credit control representative of AIG Credit Card Company (Hon g Kong) Limited; Ho Chui-yee, 24, former junior clerk of Wing Hang Credit Limited (WHCL); Henry Lee Po-yiu, 39, and Phoebe Leung Kit-ping, 26, respectively former branch manager and former assistant branch manager of WHCL.
They will appear in Kowloon City Magistracy at 9:30 am tomorrow (Tuesday) in eight separate cases.
The defendants were arrested by the ICAC during a corruption inquiry last year. Subsequent enquiries revealed the alleged conspiracy offences.
Tse, Au, Sum, Man, Chin, Chan and Ho each faces one count of conspiring with other persons to obtain access to a computer belonging to their respective employer, with a view to dishonest gain for himself/herself or another, whether on the same occasion as he/she obtained such access or on any future occasion.
In a separate case, Lee and Leung face a similar joint charge, while Lee further faces another similar charge.
The alleged offences in the above cases took place between October 2001 and August 2005.
ICAC enquiries revealed that the defendants had allegedly obtained confidential information of account holders to facilitate a syndicate's debt collecting business.
The defendants have been released on ICAC bail, pending their court appearances tomorrow.
The nine defendants are Tse Yat-hoi, 32, former fraud prevention executive of Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited; Au Yeung Chuen, 42, former credit control manager of Citic Ka Wah Bank Limited; Sum Po-yin, 32, former senior clerk of Hang Seng Bank Limited; Man Kei-yui, 37, former collection assistant of DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited; Chin Chi-wai, 33, former client service representative of Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited; Chan Chi-kwong, 36, former credit control representative of AIG Credit Card Company (Hon g Kong) Limited; Ho Chui-yee, 24, former junior clerk of Wing Hang Credit Limited (WHCL); Henry Lee Po-yiu, 39, and Phoebe Leung Kit-ping, 26, respectively former branch manager and former assistant branch manager of WHCL.
They will appear in Kowloon City Magistracy at 9:30 am tomorrow (Tuesday) in eight separate cases.
The defendants were arrested by the ICAC during a corruption inquiry last year. Subsequent enquiries revealed the alleged conspiracy offences.
Tse, Au, Sum, Man, Chin, Chan and Ho each faces one count of conspiring with other persons to obtain access to a computer belonging to their respective employer, with a view to dishonest gain for himself/herself or another, whether on the same occasion as he/she obtained such access or on any future occasion.
In a separate case, Lee and Leung face a similar joint charge, while Lee further faces another similar charge.
The alleged offences in the above cases took place between October 2001 and August 2005.
ICAC enquiries revealed that the defendants had allegedly obtained confidential information of account holders to facilitate a syndicate's debt collecting business.
The defendants have been released on ICAC bail, pending their court appearances tomorrow.