A site supervisor of an engineering company, who allegedly accepted bribes totalling $200,000 for awarding sub-contracts relating to two construction projects, was caught red-handed by the ICAC yesterday.

Ten serving and one former employees of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) were arrested by the ICAC for allegedly embezzling about $400,000 generated from add-value transactions for Octopus Smart Cards (Octopus Cards) and the sale of railway tickets.

A senior quantity surveyor of the main contractor for the construction of the Sheung Shui Abattoir was today (Tuesday) charged by the ICAC for allegedly taking $80,000 in bribes from a sub-contractor for processing payment of project fees.

The ICAC yesterday (Friday) charged a Police Sergeant for allegedly coercing a Police Constable (PC) to provide him with a Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) telebet account and bet money in return for writing a favourable appraisal report on the PC.

An Assistant Supplies Officer of the Government Supplies Department (GSD) today (Friday) admitted that she had accepted gift cheques worth $10,000 in total from a supplier for leaking tendering information and helping the supplier successfully bid for various government contracts.

The ICAC is working on two sets of corruption prevention guides tailor-made respectively for the engineering and banking sectors, ICAC Commissioner Mr Alan Lai disclosed today (Friday) at a Chinese General Chamber of Commerce meeting.

An ICAC investigation revealed that a director of the main contractor of a construction project at the Yuen Long Industrial Estate, a piling sub-contractor and a resident engineer had allegedly conspired to construct shortened driven piles instead of bore d piles as required by the approved building plan.

Two former insurance agents, charged by the ICAC, received jail sentences for their roles in an insurance scam involving false claims of $340,000 from eight insurance companies.

A subcontractor responsible for laying cables at the Chek Lap Kok Airport ' s Passenger Terminal Building, alleged to have pocketed more than $643,000 of staff bonus payments released by the contractor, appeared at Eastern Court today (Wednesday).

A former Structural Engineer of the Architectural Services Department (ASD), charged by the ICAC with accepting unauthorised loans totalling $590,000 and issuing dishonoured cheques to postpone repayment of the loans, was sentenced to 200 hours of communi ty service at District Court today (Wednesday).