A former financial controller of a listed company, charged by the ICAC, was today (January 17) convicted at the District Court of conspiracy to accept an illegal rebate of about $590,000 for engaging an accounting firm to provide services, and defrauding the listed company of over $2 million by outsourcing other services to a consultant firm owned by him.

A company director was charged by the ICAC last night (January 16) with using a false sales contract to support her application for opening a corporate account for the company with a bank.

A former branch service associate of the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), charged by the ICAC, admitted at the Eastern Magistracy today (January 16) that he had offered $2,000 in bribes in relation to his application for the post.

A former Estate Surveyor of the Housing Department (HD) and her husband, charged by the ICAC, were today (January 15) sentenced to jail terms up to 25 months for fraud by making false declarations to deceive the Government into approving applications for Private Tenancy Allowance (PTA) totalling about $4.9 million for over 17 years.

A former bar bender of an engineering company was charged by the ICAC yesterday (January 14) with defrauding and attempted to defraud his fellow workers by falsely representing that they were employed as unskilled bar benders and hence were entitled to lower wages.

The ICAC had remained steadfast and committed to combatting corruption vigorously and impartially, and safeguarding the probity culture of Hong Kong amidst unprecedented challenges to the city brought by social unrests.

A former employee of a construction company, charged by the ICAC, admitted at the Tuen Mun Magistracy today (January 13) that he had solicited and accepted illegal commissions from hardware retailers in relation to hardware supplies for the construction of a private columbarium.

A former foreman of a cleaning service contractor, charged by the ICAC, was today (January 13) sentenced at the West Kowloon Magistracy for defrauding the MTR Corporation Limited (MTR Corporation) of service payment by falsifying attendance records of cleaners.

A property consultant has been charged by the ICAC today (January 10) with accepting illegal rebates totalling over HK$42,000 for introducing a decoration company to Hong Kong flat-buyers of a real estate property in Malaysia.

A former employee of a sports cars distributor has been charged by the ICAC today (January 10) with accepting “tea money” of $1,000 from a customer for repairing her sports car after a traffic accident.