A senior quantity surveyor of the main contractor for the construction of the Sheung Shui Abattoir was arrested by the ICAC yesterday (Thursday) for allegedly soliciting and accepting $80,000 in bribes from a sub-contractor for speeding up payment of project fees.

Ten government departments have so far issued new or revised integrity guidelines for their staff under a civil service integrity programme jointly launched by the ICAC and the Civil Service Bureau (CSB).

The Court of Final Appeal today (Wednesday) dismissed the application of a Bailiff's Assistant to further appeal against his conviction for using documents with false information which purportedly showed that he had attempted to serve court summonses.

A former merchandiser of a department store mainly dealing in Chinese-style clothes, charged by the ICAC for pocketing about $380,000 by purchasing goods from a firm operated by her at inflated prices, appeared in Western Court this (Wednesday) morning.

An Artisan of the then Urban Services Department (USD) was jailed for 30 months at District Court today (Tuesday) for bribing his supervisor and stealing burial property from coffins at the Cape Collinson Crematorium.

Six people, who were among the nine arrested by the ICAC during the weekend for alleged graft facilitated frauds involving Letters of Credit (L/C) worth $93 million in total, were charged and taken to Western Court this (Monday) afternoon.

The ICAC has arrested nine people, including a deputy general manager of Asian Honour International Limited (Asian Honour), a subsidiary company of the Guangnan Holdings Limited, her husband (a businessman) as well as a manager of the same company, for an alleged $93 million Letters of Credit (L/C) fraud facilitated by corruption.

Twenty-six members of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants (HKSA), including four Council members, visited the Operations Department of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) this (Saturday) morning.

A flight attendant of Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. (Cathay Pacific) was today (Friday) convicted of taking bribes for nominating a man for a scheme which entitled him to concessionary airline tickets.

Nine people, including a defeated candidate of the Kowloon City District in the 1999 District Councils (DC) election, were today (Friday) arrested by the ICAC for their alleged involvement in a “ vote-planting ” scam.