A regional director of an insurance company, charged by the ICAC, was today (September 12) sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at the Eastern Magistracy after being convicted of defrauding the company of about $30,000 in commissions by falsely representing that her husband was the handling agent of two insurance policies.

An Immigration Assistant of the Immigration Department (ImmD), charged by the ICAC, was today (September 12) convicted at the Eastern Magistracy of defrauding the ImmD of a salary advance in the sum of over $32,000.

Two former employees of a Japanese fast food restaurant chain, charged by the ICAC, were today (September 11) sentenced to jail terms up to eight months in separate cases at the Tuen Mun Magistracy for offering and accepting $24,000 in bribes respectively, and conspiracy to defraud the restaurant chain of sales revenue amounting to at least $52,000.

A developer and his two associates appeared in the Shatin Magistracy today (September 5) after being charged by the ICAC with conspiracy to offer bribes totalling $600,000 to a village resident representative for not opposing small house development projects of the developer in a village in Tai Po.

Two former site supervisors of a construction company, charged by the ICAC, were today (September 1) each sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment at the Kowloon City Magistracy for conspiracy to accept illegal “referral fees” of over $160,000 in total from nine metal scaffolders for arranging and procuring their employment by the company.

ICAC Commissioner Mr Simon Peh Yun-lu today (Friday) called on corporate leaders and professionals to strive to foster an ethical culture from boardrooms to storerooms and steer their enterprises in a direction that went beyond compliance.

A freelance arborist, charged by the ICAC, was today (August 29) sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment at the Eastern Magistracy after being convicted of conspiracy for a then arborist of a landscape architecture company to accept illegal commissions totalling over $250,000 in relation to the award of tree survey projects.

A woman Police Constable (PC), charged by the ICAC, admitted at the Eastern Magistracy today (August 28) that she had defrauded two persons and two licensed money lenders of loans totalling $110,000.

A director-cum-shareholder of a trading company appeared at the West Kowloon Magistracy today (August 25) after being charged by the ICAC with defrauding a bank of export invoice financing loans totalling about $13 million by using false commercial invoices.

Two former site supervisors of a construction company, charged by the ICAC, admitted at the Kowloon City Magistracy today (August 24) that they had conspired together to accept illegal “referral fees” of over $160,000 in total from nine metal scaffolders for arranging and procuring their employment by the company.