A former chief chef of the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) admitted at the Eastern Court today (Thursday) that he accepted regular bribe payments for allowing a food supplier to provide HKJC's Shatin clubhouse with inferior "dim sum" ingredients.

An executive of a Mainland-funded textile company in Hong Kong was sentenced to four-and-a-half-years' imprisonment at District Court today (Thursday) for pocketing $3.42 million company funds.

The ICAC has arrested 28 people in a territory wide operation commencing on Tuesday (July 4) in connection with a suspected $42 million credit scam allegedly facilitated by corruption.

A music director and his mother appeared in Eastern Court this (Wednesday) morning on charges of illegally employing Mainland students studying at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts (APA).

An Immigration Officer was convicted of accepting bribes for helping a number of Mainland citizens, including an alleged triad leader wanted by the Government of the United States, to enter Hong Kong illegally and leaking confidential information of the D epartment.

A former managing editor of a local newspaper's racing section was today (Wednesday) convicted of soliciting a monthly bribe payment of $7,000 and accepting $5,000 cash for securing an additional freelance job for a then subordinate.

Two former employees of a cinema admitted at San Po Kong Court today (Tuesday) that they had pocketed proceeds totalling about $130,000 from the sale of 3,600 stolen tickets.

The Department of Justice has instituted civil proceedings on behalf of the ICAC to claim assets worth more than $4 million controlled by a retired police sergeant.

A sub-contractor was jailed for four months at Eastern Court today (Monday) for offering $300,000 in bribes to ensure that he could continue to be awarded contracts for cleansing work at construction sites.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is concerned about the recent increase in the number of corruption complaints in the financial and construction industries.