The Independent Commission Against Corruption will host an international anti-graft symposium every two years to provide a platform for discussions on practical issues and challenges faced by law enforcement officers worldwide.

Three persons were charged by the ICAC in connection with alleged credit frauds totalling $285 million worth of Letters of Credit (L/C) facilities involving Guangnan (Holdings) Limited (Guangnan) and brought to Eastern Court this (Wednesday) afternoon in two separate cases.

A former chairman of a rural committee on Lantao Island, charged by the ICAC, was convicted of embezzling $178,300 in committee funds at North Kowloon Court today (Monday).

Regular international forums on anti-graft issues would give a boost to the formation of a "Great Wall of Corruption Busters", the Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, Mr Alan Lai Nin, said today (Monday).

A clerk was sentenced to one month's imprisonment at San Po Kong Court today (Monday) for involvement in a vote-planting scam in the 1999 District Councils (DC) Election.

A supervisor and a manager of a nightclub in Wan Chai were arrested by the ICAC on Thursday (November 9) for allegedly offering over $30,000 in “tea money” to caretakers of a building to facilitate its hostesses to use entrance of the building.

The ICAC has arrested five people in its investigation into an alleged corruption facilitated scam involving the counterfeiting of computer Central Processing Units (CPUs).

More than 400 delegates representing 35 jurisdictions and four international and regional bodies will converge in Hong Kong next week to take part in the First ICAC Symposium.

The court today (Thursday) issued a warrant for the arrest of a company director in connection with a $110 million Letters of Credit (L/C) fraud involving a Mainland's window company in Hong Kong.

The general manager and a credit manager of Hang Seng Bank Limited (HSB), together with four businessmen, were charged by the ICAC with a total of 32 bribery and fraud charges in relation to the granting of Letters of Credit worth over HK$880 million.