A then Executive Director of the Insurance Authority (IA) and her daughter-in-law were charged by the ICAC today (March 7) with conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office (MIPO) by allegedly coercing and inducing an insurance company to hire the daughter-in-law with an enhanced salary package.

Five people were charged by the ICAC yesterday and today (March 4 and 5) with conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice and laundering crime proceeds totalling $319,500 in an investigation whereby an inmate of Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre (LCKRC) and his associates were allegedly to have arranged two crimes involving possession of unlawful arms, explosives or dangerous drugs to facilitate two other inmates’ applications to the court for reduction of sentences by tipping off the Police about the crimes. Early intervention by the ICAC successfully stopped the two arranged crimes from occurring.

The ICAC had earlier charged a then property manager of a property management company and his wife for allegedly stealing minor works payments of a public housing estate totalling over $530,000. The duo, appearing at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts for mention today (March 4), were laid with three additional charges of theft and two of money-laundering involving over $11 million in relation a public housing estate and two Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) estates.

The ICAC had earlier charged five people in separate cases for their roles in a $37.5 million critical illness insurance compensation scam in which an insurance agent arranged cancer patients to pose as policyholders to undergo medical examinations at clinical institutions to obtain medical certificates. Following the guilty pleas and jail sentences of four defendants, the last defendant in the cases, a policyholder, was sentenced to 32 months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud at the District Court today (March 4).

An insurance agent and two others, charged by the ICAC, were today (March 1) sentenced to jail terms ranging from four and a half years to six years and four months at the Court of First Instance of the High Court for their roles in a $37.5 million critical illness insurance compensation scam revealed in a graft probe. Cancer patients were posed in the scam as policyholders to undergo medical examinations at clinical institutions to obtain medical certificates.

One of two then employees of a bakery, charged by the ICAC, was today (March 1) sentenced to three and a half months’ imprisonment at the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts after the duo pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal a total of over $110,000 from a branch. The offence was revealed in the course of a graft probe.

The vice president of a company was charged by the ICAC yesterday (February 28) for allegedly soliciting a bribe of $2 million to $3 million from a business partner for assisting to resolve a dispute between the two parties over a property development project on terms most favourable to the business partner.

An insurance agent and two others, who were charged by the ICAC after a corruption investigation revealed their roles in a $37.5 million critical illness insurance compensation scam in which cancer patients were posed as policyholders to undergo medical examinations at clinical institutions to obtain medical certificates, today (February 28) pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud at the High Court.

Thirty-five law enforcers from 19 jurisdictions around the world today (February 27) completed an international anti-corruption training programme co-organised by the ICAC and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the first of its kind held in Hong Kong. The programme, which was the inaugural course of the Hong Kong International Academy Against Corruption (HKIAAC) newly established by the ICAC this month, attracted a record high number of participating countries and regions among past ICAC training events.

Following the prosecution of the operator of a small house developer and a village representative for allegedly conspiring with others to deceive the Lands Department into granting various building licenses for a small house estate development project in Yuen Long, the ICAC further charged nine small house applicants today (February 27) upon receipt of legal advice from the Department of Justice (DoJ).