Four more charged for alleged bribery and unauthorised checks on customers' data to help debt collecting business
2006-7-12
Four more persons have been charged by the ICAC today (Wednesday) for alleged bribery and conducting unauthorised checks on customers' personal data of various banks for two debt collection companies, following the prosecution of nine others earlier this year.
The defendants are Lo Po-shun, 40, director of Honesty Corporate Management Limited (Honesty) and partner of Shun Tat Debt Collection Service Company (Shun Tat); Hung Tsz-yin, 41, employee of Honesty; Au Yeung Yuk-lin, 28, former clerk of a bank; and her brother Au Yeung Chi-fai, 38.
They will appear in Kowloon City Magistracy at 9:30 am this Friday (July 14) on a total of nine offences –'96 one of conspiracy for an agent to accept an advantage, six of conspiracy to obtain access to computer with a view to dishonest gain, and two of incitement to obtain access to computer with a view to dishonest gain.
The defendants were arrested by the ICAC during a corruption inquiry last year. Nine other persons were earlier charged by the ICAC for their alleged roles in the case.
The bribery charge alleges Au Yeung Yuk-lin and Au Yeung Chi-fai of conspiring together for Au Yeung Yuk-lin to accept advantages from Hung.
The alleged advantages were calculated at $10 to $20 per set of customers' personal data of a bank provided by Au Yeung Yuk-lin to Hung.
The four defendants face a total of three counts of conspiring together and with other persons to obtain access to computers belonging to two banks with a view to dishonest gain for themselves or another.
Hung alone faces three similar offences of conspiring with Lo and other persons to obtain access to computers belonging to three banks for the same reason.
Lo faces one count of unlawfully inciting a person to obtain access to a computer belonging to a bank for the same reason, while Hung faces a similar offence involving a computer of another bank.
ICAC enquiries revealed that the defendants had allegedly conspired to conduct unauthorised checks on bank customers' data for Honesty and Shun Tat to assist their debt collecting business.
The above alleged offences took place between January 2003 and June 2005.
The four defendants have been released on ICAC bail, pending their court appearances on Friday.
The defendants are Lo Po-shun, 40, director of Honesty Corporate Management Limited (Honesty) and partner of Shun Tat Debt Collection Service Company (Shun Tat); Hung Tsz-yin, 41, employee of Honesty; Au Yeung Yuk-lin, 28, former clerk of a bank; and her brother Au Yeung Chi-fai, 38.
They will appear in Kowloon City Magistracy at 9:30 am this Friday (July 14) on a total of nine offences –'96 one of conspiracy for an agent to accept an advantage, six of conspiracy to obtain access to computer with a view to dishonest gain, and two of incitement to obtain access to computer with a view to dishonest gain.
The defendants were arrested by the ICAC during a corruption inquiry last year. Nine other persons were earlier charged by the ICAC for their alleged roles in the case.
The bribery charge alleges Au Yeung Yuk-lin and Au Yeung Chi-fai of conspiring together for Au Yeung Yuk-lin to accept advantages from Hung.
The alleged advantages were calculated at $10 to $20 per set of customers' personal data of a bank provided by Au Yeung Yuk-lin to Hung.
The four defendants face a total of three counts of conspiring together and with other persons to obtain access to computers belonging to two banks with a view to dishonest gain for themselves or another.
Hung alone faces three similar offences of conspiring with Lo and other persons to obtain access to computers belonging to three banks for the same reason.
Lo faces one count of unlawfully inciting a person to obtain access to a computer belonging to a bank for the same reason, while Hung faces a similar offence involving a computer of another bank.
ICAC enquiries revealed that the defendants had allegedly conspired to conduct unauthorised checks on bank customers' data for Honesty and Shun Tat to assist their debt collecting business.
The above alleged offences took place between January 2003 and June 2005.
The four defendants have been released on ICAC bail, pending their court appearances on Friday.