A former regional sales director of a property agency has been charged by the ICAC today (September 1) with offering a bribe of $1 million to a subordinate for diverting the transaction of a property at an asking price up to $260 million to another estate agency, and fraud over reimbursement of meal expenses.

Two Chinese medicine practitioners have been charged by the ICAC today (August 31) with defrauding a Chinese medicine clinics group of granting sick leave by issuing and using a false sick leave certificate.

Two former foremen were charged by the ICAC yesterday (August 26) with defrauding a cleaning service contractor of a public housing estate of salary payments totalling about $330,000 by falsifying the attendance records of a former cleaning worker for almost four years.

A property buyer was charged by the ICAC yesterday (August 25) 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 the property by $500,000.

A former manager and three serving estate agents of a property agency have been charged by the ICAC today (August 25) with deceiving the agency into paying commissions totalling over $64,000 to one of the estate agents by falsely representing her involvements in five property transactions, and accepting a bribe of $23,000 from a client.

A driver has been charged by the ICAC today (August 24) with deceiving a buyer into purchasing a second-hand car from a dealer at an inflated price by using false sales documents.

To align with the government’s latest arrangements for gradual resumption of public services, the ICAC announced today (August 21) that starting from Monday (August 24), the Commission will resume full range of services with appropriate measures to limit the number of staff in the office at any one time to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

A former manager of a hotel, charged by the ICAC, was today (August 20) sentenced to three years’ imprisonment at the District Court for soliciting bribes of about $370,000 from an information technology (IT) contractor over service contracts, and deceiving the hotel into awarding service contracts worth about $440,000 to another IT contractor related to him.

A then parallel goods trader, charged by the ICAC, was today (August 17) sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts after admitting bribery over smartphone repair services and access to an internal web-based system containing confidential product information.

A former foreman of a construction subcontractor has been charged by the ICAC today (August 17) with bribery and fraud involving illegal rebates and salary payments totaling about $38,000 solicited and collected from four workers recruited by him.