A former manager of an insurance company, charged by the ICAC, was today (April 8) sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts for laundering over $640,000 in crime proceeds in relation to the sale of insurance products.

To ensure a clean and fair Chief Executive Election (CE Election), the ICAC has adopted a holistic strategy of offering publicity and educational services to candidates, election helpers and members of the Election Committee.

The ICAC announced today (March 31) that starting from tomorrow (April 1), the Commission will resume full-scale operations and services.

A former employee of a sub-contractor of a public park construction project, who had absconded for over 25 years after being charged by the ICAC in late 1994, was today (March 22) sentenced to three years’ imprisonment after admitting at the District Court that he had offered bribes totalling $67,000 to two government officers over lax supervision.

Two former insurance agents, charged by the ICAC, were today (March 17) respectively jailed for 37 months and 12 months for conspiracy to defraud an insurance company of commissions totalling over $750,000 by falsely representing that one of them had handled 10 insurance policies.

Following enforcement actions taken by the ICAC earlier against suspected corruption and fraud in relation to a small house estate development project in Yuen Long, the Commission this morning (March 16) charged the operator of a small house developer and a village representative in Yuen Long for allegedly conspiring with others to deceive the Lands Department into granting various building licenses for the project in a span of 14 years.

A director of a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), charged by the ICAC, today (March 7) admitted at the District Court that he had conspired with others to defraud four banks of 83 loans totalling over $102 million and banking facilities totalling $31 million, and to deceive a government department and a public body into acting as guarantors for loans and facilities totalling $11 million granted by the banks.

In view of the latest epidemic situation of COVID-19, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) today (February 28) announced that starting from tomorrow (March 1), ICAC Regional Offices will open from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm; and from 2:00 pm-6:00 pm, Monday to Friday, to receive corruption complaints and enquiries from the public. The temporary adjustment is to allow a flexible deployment of staff to support the anti-epidemic work.

A logistics company operator, charged by the ICAC, was today (February 28) convicted at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts of conspiracy to defraud The Salvation Army Hong Kong and Macau Command (The Salvation Army) by submitting quotations from three logistic companies under his control for a transport service order worth over $140,000.

The ICAC today (February 25) charged the chairman of the incorporated owners (IO) of a building in Prince Edward with forgery and using copies of false instruments in relation to applications for allowance for a security guard and a cleaner of the building and subsidy for the IO under the Anti-epidemic Fund.