The ICAC Commissioner, Mr Alan Lai, today (Tuesday) enjoyed an hour's chat with a group of licensed hawkers from the Western District and to listen to their views and comments on the work of the anti-corruption agency.

Eight members of an education fund were today (Monday) charged by the ICAC for allegedly misleading the ICAC during its investigation into a suspected corruption case involving the theft of more than $2 million from the fund.

Two company directors were sent to jail at District Court today (Monday) for cheating two banks out of $18 million in connection with applications from Guangnan (Holdings) Limited (Guangnan) for Letters of Credit (L/Cs) facilities based on bogus commercia l transactions.

A Police Constable was today (Friday) convicted at Eastern Court of swindling $60,700 from a woman he had come to know through a telephone chat-line, by fabricating a series of stories.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption has reached a high point in web development with the launch of its revamped corporate website which features enriched content and new functional tools to facilitate easy navigation and information searching.

Forty persons, including a former branch manager of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), were arrested by the ICAC for their alleged corrupt involvement in conspiring to obtain personal installment loans totalling $5.6 million from the bank by fraudulent means.

Three directors of an investment company and a TV artiste, charged by the ICAC for allegedly defrauding the Agricultural Bank of China in Guangdong Province in a $515 million land deal, had their case further adjourned when they appeared at the Court of F irst Instance today (Monday).

Three men were given jail terms ranging from two and a half years to four years at District Court today (Monday) for their participation in a fraudulent scheme to utter counterfeit credit cards to obtain $1 million worth of watches from a jewellery shop.

The ICAC has arrested a man on Thursday (July 5) for allegedly swindling about $70,000 from public housing applicants to assist them in securing units of a public housing estate of their choice.

The ICAC has arrested two senior executives of a French-Hong Kong joint venture company for an alleged corruption-facilitated wage theft involving imported labour at the Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTRC) Tseung Kwan O extension project.