Thirty officers of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) today (Friday) received commendations for their outstanding performances.

Twenty-six officers from the ICAC, Mainland procuratorate authorities and other local and overseas law enforcement agencies, today (Friday) graduated from the 23rd ICAC Chief Investigators Command Course after completing a five-week intensive professional and management course.

The ICAC has arrested 12 persons, including a director of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)'s commercial arm and a director of a UK company which acts as BBC's exclusive sourcing agent, for an alleged $13 million bribery scam.

An assistant engineer was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Eastern Court today (Tuesday) for having deducted up to 40% of a casual worker's wages as rewards for employing the latter to carry out electrical works at various construction projects.

A Southern District Councillor was today (Monday) sentenced to three months' imprisonment at Western Court for vote-planting offences in connection with the 1999 Southern District Council Election.

A man employed by an accounting firm as an accountant, who was caught red-handed accepting bribes from shop tenants, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment at Eastern Court today (Monday).

A former restaurant waiter, who bluffed about his "corrupt" connection with housing officials to cheat public housing applicants out of $72,000, admitted deception offences at North Kowloon Court today (Friday).

Four persons, earlier arrested by the ICAC for an alleged corruption scam involving the leakage of subscribers' personal data from telecommunications service providers to debt collectors, were today (Thursday) charged by the ICAC.

The Court of Appeal today (Tuesday) dismissed the appeals against their conviction and sentence by a company director and a former manager of the Bank of China (BOC), who were convicted in connection with a bank reference fraud early this year.

Four members of a syndicate, charged by the ICAC, admitted at District Court today (Friday) that they had conspired to forge dependent travel passes of New World First Bus Services Limited (First Bus), from which they made illegal profits.