A driver, charged by the ICAC, today (September 20) admitted at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts that he had deceived three companies into granting him sick leaves and paying him work injury compensations totalling about $96,000 with false medical certificates and receipts issued by a registered Chinese medicine practitioner.

ICAC Commissioner Mr Simon Peh Yun-lu this (September 19) morning visited the Commission’s Operations Control set up for the Election Committee Subsector Elections, and noted that the ICAC would ensure a clean and fair election through a comprehensive three-pronged strategy integrating enforcement, prevention and education.

Four persons, charged by the ICAC for their roles in a vote buying and rigging scheme in relation to the Information Technology Functional Constituency (ITFC) of the 2016 Legislative Council (LegCo) General Election, were today (September 15) convicted at the District Court of accepting bribes to vote for a particular candidate at the election.

A former teacher of a government-aided secondary school, charged by the ICAC, was today (September 15) sentenced to 46 months’ imprisonment at the District Court after pleading guilty to multiple offences under the anti-bribery law, theft and using copies of false instruments in deceiving the school of payments totalling $5.3 million in relation to 14 school facility renovation projects.

The ICAC today (September 14) charged three former insurance agents of an insurance company for allegedly conspiring with another then insurance agent to defraud the company of commissions and bonuses totalling about $1.2 million by making false representations on the handling insurance agent of four insurance policies, and conspiracy to launder over $2.7 million in crime proceeds.

An employee of a cleaning contractor of the Fire Services Department (FSD) was charged by the ICAC today (September 14) with defrauding the FSD of cleaning fees by falsifying attendance records of cleaners.

Two persons, charged by the ICAC, were today (September 10) sentenced at the Fanling Magistrates’ Courts for assisting in managing a vice establishment which was revealed in the course of a corruption investigation.

A former manager of Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) was charged by the ICAC yesterday (September 8) with fraud and attempted fraud by concealing her husband’s financial interests in two vendors when engaging them to provide services in five projects sponsored by the government with a total contract sum of over $390,000.

A former sales officer of a property investment company, charged by the ICAC, today (September 9) admitted at the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts that he had solicited a “laisee” from a tenant over the leasing of a carpark space in an industrial building.

A former bank employee was charged by the ICAC yesterday (September 7) with conspiracy to accept bribes in relation to two bank loans amounted to $12 million by concealing the identity of the ultimate controller of two Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).