The ICAC has arrested an officer of the Customs and Excise Department (C&E) who was suspected to be an operator of a pirated game compact disc (CD) shop and engaged in the manufacture and sale of counterfeit products, including “ Playstation ” handsets and pirated game CDs.

In an operation which commenced on Monday (March 20), the ICAC has arrested six people, including a director, a financial controller and an accounting clerk of a Mainland's window company in Hong Kong, for an alleged $92 million Letters of Credit (L/C) fr aud facilitated by bribery.

A site engineer admitted at District Court today (Wednesday) that he had conspired with two colleagues to construct substandard bored piles at Tung Chung Station Development Package II Site 4 (the project), and submit false piling records to defraud the B uildings Department.

A system analyst was convicted at Eastern Court today (Tuesday) of unlawfully retrieving tendering data from an Information Technology Services Department (ITSD) computer system to help his company obtain government contracts, while he was seconded to ITSD.

A supervisor of an international freight forwarding company and an owner of a transportation company were arrested by the ICAC yesterday (Monday) for an alleged bribery scam, which caused $4 million loss to the freight forwarding company.

A businessman, arrested by the ICAC at the Hong Kong airport last Friday after arriving from Taiwan, appeared in Eastern Court today (Monday) for his alleged involvement in a $2.3 million cheque discounting scam.

The ICAC has arrested 10 people in an operation commencing on Thursday (March 16) for allegedly arranging a ‘scapegoat’ to claim ownership of five containers of smuggled projection television sets and admit charges laid by the Customs and Excise Department (C&E).

An unemployed man and four operators of a pirated VCD shop, charged by the ICAC for allegedly plotting to arrange a “ scapegoat ” to face prosecution by the Customs and Excise Department (C&E), appeared at San Po Kong Court today (Friday).

An unemployed man was jailed for nine months at Tuen Mun Court today (Friday) for posing as a Customs and Excise officer and soliciting monthly protection fees from an illegal oil station.

A woman admitted at Eastern Court today (Thursday) that she had impersonated an ICAC officer and made false corruption allegations against an engineer.