Eighteen persons, including a chairman of an investment company and a bank's branch senior manager, were arrested by the ICAC last week for their suspected involvement in a HK$1.8 billion credit scam allegedly facilitated by corruption.

A former clerk of a Kwai Chung industrial building's owners' incorporation (OI), who pocketed OI funds totalling $387,000, was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment at District Court today (Friday).

A suspected mastermind of a human smuggling syndicate and his associate, who allegedly helped supply forged travel documents to facilitate illegal entry of Mainland residents into other countries, were charged by the ICAC and brought to San Po Kong Court this (Friday) afternoon.

The ICAC has arrested a Police Sergeant on suspicion of accepting "protection fees" totalling about $100,000 from two associated restaurants between 1996 and last year.

A man, who claimed to be a professor of a Macau's university and was convicted of a false Nigerian passport scam at District Court in his absence today (Thursday), is now being wanted by the ICAC.

A Housing Officer of the Housing Department who solicited unauthorised loans from tenants who had applied for reallocation of public housing units was today (Thursday) sentenced at Shatin Court.

Two former karaoke waiters, who were earlier arrested by the ICAC for corruptly assisting a counterfeit credit card syndicate to capture card data with a match-box-sized skimmer, were each sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment at San Po Kong Court today (W ednesday).

The ICAC has charged a former head of a community centre for allegedly deceiving the Employees Retraining Board (ERB) of about $160,000 in allowances and tutor fees by falsely representing that the girlfriend and the mother of his subordinate had taught r etraining courses.

The ICAC has arrested 10 persons, including three Highways Department (HyD) staff, for alleged involvement in substandard works at two slope reinforcement projects in Kowloon.

The ICAC today (Monday) charged a former project manager of a public listed company, Easyknit International Holdings Limited (Easyknit), for allegedly accepting $2.26 million in bribes in relation to property investment of the listed company and its subsi diaries.