About 800 secondary school students today (Friday) engaged in a direct dialogue with two popular artists in a gathering organised by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) on values and gratification in life that go beyond material pleasures .

In response to press enquiries, an ICAC spokesman today (Friday) confirmed that the Commission had mounted an operation commencing last evening in relation to allegations that some police officers were suspected to have corruptly connived at the stand-in arrangements in a traffic accident.

A former director of a printing equipment company was today (Thursday) sent to jail for one-and-a-half years for masterminding a scam to inflate printing machinery prices and help customers submit false contracts to finance companies for obtaining loan fa cilities totalling $42 million.

Eight former members of an education fund today (Wednesday) received jail terms up to 12 months at District Court for stealing over $2 million from the fund and misleading the ICAC during its investigation into a suspected corruption case involving the th eft.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption was today (Tuesday) commended for its effective and deterrent efforts in combatting counterfeit credit card fraud, which resulted in a drop of cases involving the skimming of card data at retail outlets.

A director of a trading company was today (Wednesday) sentenced to five years' imprisonment at the Court of First Instance for cheating four banks out of $53 million in connection with applications from Guangnan (Holdings) Limited (Guangnan) for Letters o f Credit (L/Cs) facilities based on bogus commercial transactions.

A Chief Building Services Engineer of the Housing Department (HD) appeared at Eastern Magistracy this (Tuesday) morning for allegedly accepting $3.36 million in bribes and for alleged misconduct in public office.

A Chief Building Services Engineer of the Housing Department (HD) was today (Thursday) charged by the ICAC with allegedly accepting $3.36 million in bribes and misconduct in public office in relation to the management of building services contracts and wo rks supervision at a number of Housing Authority (HA) housing projects.

An Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and an Executive Officer (EO) of the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority (TELA) were arrested by the ICAC yesterday (Tuesday) for alleged corruption and abuse of authority in awarding TELA's printing an d production contracts worth about $1.76 million in total.

The ICAC yesterday (Monday) arrested five former laboratory technicians for allegedly forging test reports in relation to concrete used for Housing Department (HD)'s construction projects in Tin Shui Wai Area 110.