A Senior Quantity Surveyor of the main contractor for the Po Lam Station of the Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTRC) was yesterday (Wednesday) charged by the ICAC for allegedly soliciting and accepting advantages for assisting in awarding contracts and showing favour to a subcontractor.

Two suppliers and a contractor were today (Thursday) charged by the ICAC for allegedly offering bribes totalling $2.1 million to a Chief Building Services Engineer of the Housing Department (HD) in relation to business transactions with the department and the Housing Authority (HA).

A Hong Kong businessman, wanted by the ICAC in order that he stands trial for arranging Mainlanders to illegally stay and work in Hong Kong by providing them with false identification documents allegedly facilitated by corruption, was re-arrested by the I CAC on Thursday (August 23).

The ICAC Commissioner, Mr Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong, in his debut contribution to the ICAC corporate website, shares with the public his feelings after taking up the top post at the anti-graft agency.

A former resident engineer, charged by the ICAC, was today (Friday) convicted at District Court of accepting advantages including free trips and nightclub entertainment in connection with a piling scam at a residential building project at Tung Chung Stati on.

Twelve police officers, including two Sergeants, were today (Thursday) charged by the ICAC for alleged conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice over the arrests of gamblers in Kwun Tong.

A Chinaware supplier received a suspended sentence today (Thursday) for bribing a former manager of the Ocean Park in return for contracts for the supply of Chinaware, teapots and wineglasses to the Chinese restaurant in the Park.

An unemployed man, charged by the ICAC for allegedly falsely accusing his former employer and a police officer of framing him up for embezzlement, appeared at Eastern Magistracy today (Tuesday).

A former debt collector, charged by the ICAC for allegedly accepting an advantage for delaying to collect a $510,000 debt from a company owner, appeared in Eastern Magistracy today (Friday).

Two Principal Inspectors of the Education Department (ED), charged by the ICAC, were today (Friday) given suspended sentences at Eastern Magistracy for misconduct in public office in awarding production contracts for various ED publications.