A then Police Constable was charged by the ICAC yesterday (May 10) for allegedly accepting bribes totalling over $13,000 from a director of a money lending company for answering the latter’s enquiries in relation to the operation of the Police. The then Police Constable also allegedly solicited an unauthorised loan of about $10,000 from a colleague.

The Court of First Instance (CFI) of the High Court today (May 11) ordered to confiscate crime proceeds of $63 million from an investor who was sentenced to 45 months’ imprisonment in an ICAC case after pleading guilty to offering bribes of about $6.4 million to a then senior executive of a bank for making a substantial amount of net profit through trading of derivative warrants.

A former employee of an investment firm, charged by the ICAC, was today (May 11) sentenced to four months’ imprisonment at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts for conspiring with two proprietors of a garage to accept bribes for awarding vehicle maintenance orders of the firm to the garage.

A former branch manager of a currency exchange company, charged by the ICAC, today (May 11) admitted at the District Court that she had stolen $940,000 from the company and used a false transaction record to cover up her misappropriation. The illegal activities were revealed in the course of a corruption investigation.

A man charged by the ICAC today (May 10) admitted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts that he had bribed a nurse of a Community Vaccination Centre (CVC) with $1,000 for obtaining a vaccination record without inoculating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Three parents and a merchant were charged by the ICAC yesterday (May 8) for allegedly offering bribes totalling $340,000 to a then administrator of an international kindergarten for assisting in the admission of four children to K1 class of the kindergarten. The then administrator and 10 parents had already been charged with bribery by the ICAC.

A former bar-bending site team leader of a sub-contractor of the Third Runway Project of the Hong Kong International Airport (Third Runway Project), charged by the ICAC, was today (May 9) sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment after admitting at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts that he had accepted bribes from two workers for continuing their employment with the sub-contractor.

A former bank manager, charged by the ICAC, was today (May 5) sentenced to four weeks’ imprisonment at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts for bribing a colleague for referring residential mortgage loan clients of a subsidiary of the bank to a financial intermediary for arranging mortgage refinancing from other banks or financial institutions.

To promote integrity management and a probity culture in the construction industry, the ICAC has teamed up with the Development Bureau (DevB) and the Construction Industry Council (CIC) today (May 4) in launching the Building a Clean and Fair Construction Industry Through Collaboration Anti-Corruption Summit and Commitment to Action Agenda.

A then bank manager, charged by the ICAC, today (May 4) admitted at the District Court that he had accepted bribes from various intermediary company representatives for assisting non-domestic clients to open personal and corporate accounts with a local bank, and used copies of false instruments to falsely represent that the clients were in Hong Kong when they made account opening applications.