A former insurance agent, charged by the ICAC, was today (April 28) sentenced to six months’ imprisonment at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts for deceiving an insurance company into offering him a more favourable remuneration package involving a signing fee of over $260,000 by submitting false income proof statements.

The ICAC will kick start its annual opinion survey from Friday (April 30) to gauge the public’s views on the Commission’s graft-fighting work and their attitude towards corruption.

A former senior sourcing manager of a multinational groceries retailer has been charged by the ICAC today (April 19) with accepting illegal rebates totalling over $3 million from a cookware supplier for placing orders with the latter.

The ICAC today (April 16) charged a former manager of a lighting product company with fraud by concealing his wife’s interest in a trading company when handling various transactions between the two companies involving sums of discount and subsidy totalling at least about $6.6 million.

A property buyer, charged by the ICAC, was today (April 16) sentenced to an imprisonment of 2 months and 2 weeks at the Tuen Mun Magistrates’ Courts for conspiring with a property vendor and a property agent to deceive the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) into levying a lesser amount of stamp duty by understating the transaction price of a property by $500,000.

A former driver of a fresh pork delivery company was charged by the ICAC yesterday (April 14) with offering advantages totalling over $120,000 to his supervisor for keeping his job.

A coach of the Hong Kong Women’s Handball Team (Women’s Handball Team), charged by the ICAC, admitted at the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts today (April 15) that he had conspired with team members to defraud the Hong Kong Sports Institute (HKSI) of government training allowance involving totalling $24,000 by falsifying attendance records.

A former insurance agent, charged by the ICAC, was today (April 14) convicted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts of deceiving an insurance company into offering him a more favourable remuneration package involving a signing fee of over $260,000 by submitting false income proof statements.

The ICAC yesterday (April 12) charged a former consultant of the Centre of Health Protection (CHP) with misconduct in public office (MIPO) and fraud for abusing his official capacity for personal gain in tuberculosis (TB) drug testing and other services, worth totalling over HK$4.2 million, provided by CHP to three international and overseas health organisations.

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 for offering bribes totalling $67,000 to government officers over lax supervision, was brought to the District Court today (April 13).