Ex-senior quantity surveyor charged with soliciting and accepting $150,000 bribes
2014-8-22
A former senior quantity surveyor of a marble and granite engineering company has been charged by the ICAC today (Friday) with soliciting and accepting bribes totalling over $150,000 from contractors in relation to project payments.
Pang Chi-on, 51, former senior quantity surveyor of Pacific Marble & Granite (HK) Limited (PMG), faces three counts of agent soliciting an advantage and two of agent accepting an advantage, contrary to Section 9(1) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance.
The defendant will appear in the Eastern Magistracy at 9:30 am next Tuesday (August 26) for plea.
At the material time, the defendant was responsible for preparing payment certificates for recommending the amount of project payments to be released by PMG to contractors after inspecting and verifying the works done by them at various sites.
Two of the charges allege that the defendant solicited two sums of money from a director of a marble engineering company as rewards for not causing undue delay of payments to the director for the works he had done for PMG.
Two other charges allege that the defendant accepted two sums of $30,000 each, totalling $60,000, from the director for the same purpose.
The remaining charge alleges that the defendant solicited $94,500 from an operator of a metal engineering company as a reward for not engaging another contractor to replace the company for the ironmongery installation works to be carried out at a resident ial estate in West Kowloon.
The above alleged bribery offences took place between March and September 2012.
The defendant has been released on ICAC bail, pending his court appearance next Tuesday.
Pang Chi-on, 51, former senior quantity surveyor of Pacific Marble & Granite (HK) Limited (PMG), faces three counts of agent soliciting an advantage and two of agent accepting an advantage, contrary to Section 9(1) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance.
The defendant will appear in the Eastern Magistracy at 9:30 am next Tuesday (August 26) for plea.
At the material time, the defendant was responsible for preparing payment certificates for recommending the amount of project payments to be released by PMG to contractors after inspecting and verifying the works done by them at various sites.
Two of the charges allege that the defendant solicited two sums of money from a director of a marble engineering company as rewards for not causing undue delay of payments to the director for the works he had done for PMG.
Two other charges allege that the defendant accepted two sums of $30,000 each, totalling $60,000, from the director for the same purpose.
The remaining charge alleges that the defendant solicited $94,500 from an operator of a metal engineering company as a reward for not engaging another contractor to replace the company for the ironmongery installation works to be carried out at a resident ial estate in West Kowloon.
The above alleged bribery offences took place between March and September 2012.
The defendant has been released on ICAC bail, pending his court appearance next Tuesday.