A former property agent was today (Thursday) sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment for soliciting and accepting illegal commission from a client over two property transactions in Happy Valley and North Point.

Two former staff members of a piling subcontractor were today (Wednesday) convicted at District Court of conspiracy to construct shortened piles at a construction site for a pumping station in Central.

The ICAC is looking for a Chinese man in connection with an alleged HK$20 million bribery scam, in which Australian citizenship was granted to unqualified applicants with the suspected corrupt assistance of a former official of the Australian Department o f Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) in Australia.

An Overseer of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD), who was charged by the ICAC for allegedly cheating a housing loan of $870,600 by falsely claiming that he was residing in the purchased property in Tuen Mun, appeared in Tsuen Wan Court today (Tuesday).

Two Architects of the Housing Department (HD) were respectively jailed for two years and two and a half years at District Court today (Monday) for conspiracy to accept advantages.

A shareholder cum director of a company and her brother, who together had allegedly pledged a company property to a bank by falsely claiming that consent was given by the board of directors, and fraudulently obtained credit facilities totalling $48 millio n, were charged by the ICAC and brought to the Eastern Court this (Saturday) morning.

A woman, who earlier resisted arrest during an ICAC operation in relation to an alleged mortgage scam, was today (Friday) sentenced at Tuen Mun Court.

Three shareholders of two associated restaurants, arrested in an ICAC operation last month for allegedly offering monthly bribe payments to a Police Sergeant, were charged and today (Friday) appeared in two separate courts.

A former project manager of a community centre was today (Friday) jailed for two years at District Court for deceiving the Employees Retraining Board (ERB) of about $160,000 in allowances and tutor fees by falsely representing that his girlfriend and his mother had taught retraining courses.

A man, who had misled the ICAC by fabricating a corruption complaint against a senior police officer, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment at North Kowloon Court today (Thursday).