Ex-building manager admits inciting IO member to accept bribes
2014-4-1
A former building manager of an industrial building, charged by the ICAC, admitted at the Tsuen Wan Magistracy today (Tuesday) that he had incited a member of the incorporated owners (IO) of the building to accept bribes in relation to the award of a security service contract.
Sin Hung-sing, 71, former building manager of Wing Fung Industrial Building (WFIB), pleaded guilty to one count of incitement to an agent to accept an advantage, contrary to Section 9(1)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance.
Magistrate Mr Raymond Wong Kwok-fai adjourned the case to April 15 this year for sentence, pending background and community service order reports. The defendant was granted cash bail of $1,000.
The court heard that at the material time, the defendant was unemployed. Between October 1993 and January 2012, the defendant was employed by the IO of WFIB in Tsuen Wan as a building manager to oversee all property management matters.
In August 2012, the IO of WFIB resolved to select a security company by an open tender. Among 10 companies which submitted tenders was the then security service contractor of WFIB.
The court heard that in the evening of October 3, 2012, the defendant visited a member of the IO of WFIB.
The defendant told the IO member that the then security service contractor of WFIB wanted to seek his assistance in continuing its security contract with WFIB, and that the IO member would get $5,000 each month if he acceded to it. The defendant also sai d he would collect the bribes for the IO member.
The proprietor of the then security service contractor of WFIB had never requested the defendant to offer advantages to the IO member for continuing its security contract with WFIB, the court was told.
The prosecution was today represented by Acting Senior Public Prosecutor Jonathan Lin, assisted by ICAC officer Yvonne Nam.
Sin Hung-sing, 71, former building manager of Wing Fung Industrial Building (WFIB), pleaded guilty to one count of incitement to an agent to accept an advantage, contrary to Section 9(1)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance.
Magistrate Mr Raymond Wong Kwok-fai adjourned the case to April 15 this year for sentence, pending background and community service order reports. The defendant was granted cash bail of $1,000.
The court heard that at the material time, the defendant was unemployed. Between October 1993 and January 2012, the defendant was employed by the IO of WFIB in Tsuen Wan as a building manager to oversee all property management matters.
In August 2012, the IO of WFIB resolved to select a security company by an open tender. Among 10 companies which submitted tenders was the then security service contractor of WFIB.
The court heard that in the evening of October 3, 2012, the defendant visited a member of the IO of WFIB.
The defendant told the IO member that the then security service contractor of WFIB wanted to seek his assistance in continuing its security contract with WFIB, and that the IO member would get $5,000 each month if he acceded to it. The defendant also sai d he would collect the bribes for the IO member.
The proprietor of the then security service contractor of WFIB had never requested the defendant to offer advantages to the IO member for continuing its security contract with WFIB, the court was told.
The prosecution was today represented by Acting Senior Public Prosecutor Jonathan Lin, assisted by ICAC officer Yvonne Nam.