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.

A mechanical foreman was today (Monday) sentenced to one year's imprisonment at District Court for soliciting "tea money" of $80,000 and accepting $20,000 as rewards for facilitating the delivery of construction materials at a private construction site in Siu Sai Wan.

About 50 members of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants visited the Independent Commission Against Corruption this (Saturday) morning as part of the Commission's continuing efforts to open up to the public.

A company director was jailed for nine years at the Court of First Instance today (Saturday) for cheating banks out of $112 million in connection with applications from Guangnan (Holdings) Limited (Guangnan) for Letters of Credit (L/Cs) facilities based o n bogus commercial transactions.

A former registered nurse of the Hospital Authority (HA) was today (Friday) sentenced at Tuen Mun Court for cheating housing allowances totalling $138,000, by falsely claiming that she had lived in the subsidized property which she in fact leased to other people.

Former legislator Gary Cheng Kai Nam, charged by the ICAC with alleged offences including accepting an advantage as a public servant, and misconduct in public office, appeared at Eastern Court this (Friday) morning.

Former legislator Gary Cheng Kai Nam was today (Thursday) charged by the ICAC with a total of five offences, including accepting an advantage as a public servant, and misconduct in public office.

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, pleaded guilty at San Po Kong Court today (Wednesday).