The master of a Mainland-registered cargo vessel was today (Thursday) charged by the ICAC with allegedly offering advantages to a Marine Department staff for lax safety inspection.

The ICAC has arrested a bar waiter and his associate for an alleged $100,000 bribery scam to capture credit card data for a criminal syndicate to manufacture counterfeit credit cards.

Three men were today (Wednesday) jailed for up to 28 months at the District Court for swindling insurance claims of over $624,000 by arranging a spate of "staged" traffic accidents, while a co-conspirator was ordered to perform community service.

A general manager of a computer company was today (Tuesday) sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment at District Court for illegally "remarking" computer Central Processing Units (CPUs) to pretend they had a higher frequency.

The Consumer Council (CC), the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCO) and the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) today (Monday) jointly issued the first-ever Code of Prac tice on Protection of Customer Information for Fixed and Mobile Service Operators (COP).

A Police Constable and an artiste, charged by the ICAC with alleged conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice in relation to a traffic accident, today (Monday) pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Mr Tong Man at Western Magistracy.

The ICAC arrested two airline freight officers for allegedly receiving monthly bribe payments and free entertainment from a forwarding company for awarding cargo spaces on aircraft.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Procuratorate (SMPP) have joined hands to produce a guidebook to help businessmen in Hong Kong and the Mainland better understand the anti-graft laws in the two jurisdictions.

The ICAC has arrested 12 persons, including two Works Supervisors I of the Highways Department (HyD), for alleged involvement in a fraudulent scheme over the replacement of damaged asbestos wall panels inside the Aberdeen Tunnel.

The ICAC arrested three men and a woman, who had allegedly used a device which was secretly installed at a restaurant's point-of-sales during overnight mahjong games, to capture customers credit card data for a syndicate to manufacture counterfeit credit cards.