Around 30 managerial staff from more than 28 insurance companies completed the ICAC's two-day Professional Anti-Corruption Training for Management in Insurance Sector and witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Commission and the Insurance Authority (IA), which formally establish and further strengthen collaboration of the two parties.

Two then team leaders of a sub-contractor of a park construction project, charged by the ICAC, were today (October 26) sentenced at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts to jail terms of five months and six months respectively for accepting bribes totalling over $64,000 from four workers for securing the latter’s employment with the sub-contractor.

A Postman, charged by the ICAC, today (October 26) admitted at the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts that he had used false parking permits to occupy a parking space at a car park of a Government Offices Building for free for about six months. The offences were revealed in the course of a corruption investigation.

The Hong Kong ICAC had earlier charged a then senior sales manager and a then director of two air-conditioning maintenance contractors for allegedly offering bribes of over HK$1 million to a then director of a hotel group for air-conditioning maintenance contracts of a hotel in Macao worth totalling around HK$34 million. Following the guilty plea of the then senior sales manager last month, the then director concerned was today (October 25) convicted at the District Court after trial.

A former kindergarten teacher, charged by the ICAC, today (October 24) admitted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts that she had bribed the principal of the kindergarten for issuing a false employment proof to support her overseas tourist visa application.

ICAC Commissioner Woo Ying-ming today (October 19) has travelled from Beijing, where he attended the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, to Liaoning to meet with officials of local anti-corruption authorities to strengthen collaboration in graft fight.

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council (AFRC) have conducted the first tripartite operation involving two Hong Kong-listed companies on suspicion that they falsified corporate transactions totalling HK$193 million (approximately RMB177.56 million) (Note 1).

A then coordinator of a logistics company was charged by the ICAC yesterday (October 18) for allegedly deceiving his then employer into placing air cargo space orders involving totalling over $9.1 million via two companies by concealing his connection and agreement with the two companies.

The ICAC has kicked off a multi-faceted education and publicity campaign for stakeholders of the District Council (DC) Election, which opens for nomination today (October 17), to help them better understand the electoral law. The Commission also calls on members of the public to actively participate in the upcoming election and fulfill their civic duty, as well as uphold the clean election culture.