A Senior Clerical Officer of the Customs and Excise Department (C&E) was today (Thursday) charged by the ICAC for allegedly soliciting an unauthorised loan of $300,000 and accepting from a businessman a number of mooncake coupons for speeding up applications for C&E removal or export permits.
Two former employees of a cinema, who had allegedly pocketed proceeds totalling about $130,000 from the sale of 5,000 stolen tickets, were charged by the ICAC.
A woman who was declared bankruptcy nine years ago was charged by the ICAC today (Wednesday) for misleading the Commission by falsely claiming that she had been wrongly adjudged as the bankrupt in a judicial proceeding, while the “ real ” bankrupt was another person.
A man formerly employed by a consultancy firm on behalf of the Housing Department (HD) as an Assistant Clerk of Works (ACOW) has been arrested by the ICAC for allegedly soliciting and accepting advantages in return for lax supervision of construction work s at HD's Yau Tong Phase 5 redevelopment project.
A village representative was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, at Tsuen Wan Court today (Tuesday) for making a malicious report falsely alleging the Tsuen Wan Rural Committee Chairman of vote buying.
Jail sentences were meted out at District Court today (Monday) for a former Housing Department (HD) employee and three others charged for corruption over the maintenance contracts of public housing estates in Western New Territories.
An Assistant Clerk of Works of the Architectural Services Department (ASD) has been arrested by the ICAC for allegedly accepting some $15,000 in bribe in return for lax supervision over construction works at a Tai Po secondary school project.
Former chief executive of Wardley Limited Ewan Quayle Launder was jailed for five years at the Court of First Instance today (Friday) for accepting a $4.5 million bribe from George Tan Soon-gin who then controlled the now defunct Carrian Group.
A writer was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Eastern Court today (Friday) for cheating grants from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) over the production cost of a literary journal published with subsidies from the HKADC.
A former Structural Engineer of the Architectural Services Department (ASD), charged by the ICAC with accepting unauthorised loans totalling $590,000 and postponing repayment by issuing dishonoured cheques to his debtors, was found guilty at District Cour t today (Thursday).