The ICAC today (Tuesday) charged a Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), a director of an equipment supplier and a Mongolian woman for alleged conspiracy to provide false information to the Immigration Department in order to obtain an employment visa for the woman.

An incumbent District Councillor was today (Monday) charged by the ICAC with vote-planting offences in connection with the 1999 Southern District Council Election.

The Court of Appeal today (Friday) handed down a written judgement which spelt out the reasons for dismissing the application of former tobacco company executive Jerry Lui Kin-hong for leave to appeal against conviction and sentence.

An international syndicate involved in the manufacturing and uttering of counterfeit credit cards was smashed in a joint operation waged by the ICAC and the Korean police, with the simultaneous arrests of six alleged syndicate members in both places.

A barrister and a solicitor were each sentenced to three years' imprisonment at District Court today (Wednesday) for extorting $10 million from businesswoman Nina Wang by claiming that a favourable forensic report could be produced to prove the authentici ty of her husband's will.

A former site supervisor of an engineering company, charged by the ICAC for soliciting and accepting bribes totaling $200,000 for awarding sub-contracts relating to two construction projects, was convicted at the Eastern Court today (Tuesday).

One more person was convicted of her involvement in cheating multi-million dollars in credit facilities involving Guangnan (Holdings) Limited (Guangnan).

Two serving and one former Artisans of the then Urban Services Department (USD) were sentenced to jail terms ranging from nine months to 18 months at District Court today (Tuesday) for stealing burial property from coffins at Cape Collinson Crematorium be fore cremation took place.

A woman was today (Monday) sentenced to 100 hours of community service at Eastern Court for fabricating a corruption allegation against a supervisor of an electrical appliances company, who was a former lover of her boyfriend.

The ICAC on Wednesday (March 28) arrested two men who had allegedly used a match-box-sized skimmer to capture credit card data from customers at a karaoke lounge for a syndicate manufacturing and uttering counterfeit credit cards in return for bribes.