In connection with the ICAC’s operation against suspected graft facilitated cross-border smuggling of portable phones in armoured vehicles, the Commission last night searched a warehouse in Shamshuipo and seized large quantities of counterfeit mobile phone accessories and 1,600 mobi le phones, worth about $3.5 million in total.

The ICAC today (Wednesday) arrested five persons for allegedly assisting a criminal syndicate to smuggle portable phones on board armoured vehicles across the border with the corrupt assistance of employees of a security company.

The ICAC has arrested six persons, including an assistant account manageress of a subsidiary of a state enterprise owned by the Guangzhou Municipal Government, for an alleged $110 million Letters of Credit (L/Cs) fraud.

The ICAC has arrested 12 persons, including three Housing Department (HD) staff, for alleged conspiracy and bribery offences in connection with two HD housing projects in Fanling and Tin Shui Wai.

More than 700 young people from Hong Kong, the Mainland and Macau explored their future role at the Youth Conference 2000 organised by the Independent Commission Against Corruption today.

A former insurance agent today (Friday) pleaded guilty to having used false documents pertaining to a number of policy holders to make a series of fraudulent medical insurance claims, totalling about $204,000.

Nine people, charged by the ICAC in connection with an alleged profit inflating scam and alleged credit fraud involving Guangnan (Holdings) Limited (Guangnan) and its subsidiaries, appeared in Eastern Court today (Thursday) in three separate cases.

The ICAC today (Wednesday) charged two former directors and a former deputy finance controller of the Guangnan (Holdings) Limited (Guangnan) with conspiracy to defraud and to publish false statement.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is on full steam in promoting corruption prevention education among Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes (MPF) service providers, with the implementation of the schemes only three months away.

The ICAC has arrested nine people in an operation commenced on Sunday (August 13) for alleged corruption, credit fraud and embezzlement offences in connection with the Guangnan (Holdings) Limited and its subsidiaries.