The ICAC has smashed a syndicate which allegedly ripped off Nepalese workers when applying for jobs in Hong Kong.

A Senior Police Communications Officer, charged by the ICAC, admitted to have accepted $42,000 in bribes for leaking out confidential police information to a reporter when he appeared in District Court today (Friday).

An unemployed man, charged by the ICAC, pleaded guilty at Western Court today (Wednesday) for fabricating a corruption allegation against an officer of the then Urban Services Department (USD) who issued him a summons for littering.

A computer salesman was jailed for eight months at Tsuen Wan Court today (Tuesday) for assisting a criminal syndicate to capture credit card data for the manufacturing of counterfeit credit cards.

An unemployed woman was today (Tuesday) charged by the ICAC for allegedly using false income proof documents to apply for a personal loan of $150,000 from a local bank.

The wife of an Assistant Professor of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) was charged by the ICAC for allegedly assisting her husband to use false declarations to obtain housing allowances totalling $2.5 million.

A former Chief Estate Manager of Taikoo Shing (Management) Ltd. (TSML), charged by the ICAC, was jailed for six months at Eastern Court today (Thursday) for accepting about $310,000 in bribes from a contractor in relation to maintenance contracts and job orders for Taikoo Shing in Quarry Bay.

A former civil servant, who ran loansharking activities in government office premises, was jailed for seven months at District Court today (Thursday) for lending money to 10 government servants at an excessive interest rate as high as 162 per cent per annum.

In connection with an investigation into a syndicate which allegedly supplied “ scapegoats ” in hawker cases, the ICAC today (Wednesday) arrested one more hawker control grade officer.

The ICAC has smashed a syndicate which allegedly supplied itinerant hawker licence holders to substitute unlicenced hawkers for arrests and prosecutions with the connivance of a number of hawker control grade officers.