A former site team leader of a sub-contractor of the Third Runway Project of the Hong Kong International Airport (Third Runway Project) was today (March 21) sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts for deceiving the sub-contractor into paying higher daily wages to four summer job seekers by making false representations that they were experienced plumbers. The defendant was among 21 people charged by the ICAC with bribery over Third Runway Project workers’ employment arising from the relevant investigation.

A secondary school teacher was charged by the ICAC today (March 20) for allegedly deceiving the school into engaging a service provider to host a workshop for students by concealing that he was the major shareholder of the service provider.

In the course of a corruption investigation by the ICAC, it was revealed that a former employee of a publishing firm had deceived the firm into making payments totalling about $380,000 to various contractors by fabricating invoices in relation to the republication of books and the relocation works of the firm. The former employee was charged by the Commission with fraud and offences under the anti-bribery law last Friday (March 17).

A former site team leader of a subcontractor of an expansion project of the United Christian Hospital, charged by the ICAC, was today (March 16) convicted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts of soliciting and accepting illegal rebates totalling over $14,000 from three carpenters and bar benders for securing their employment with the subcontractor and being favourably disposed to them at work.

Five key members of an active ramp-and-dump syndicate were arrested in a follow-up joint operation of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) mounted in the past two days (14 and 15 March). The sophisticated syndicate is suspected of operating ramp-and-dump market manipulation involving illicit gains of $191 million through a complex shareholding network of Hong Kong-listed companies by corrupt means. Eight other members of the syndicate were earlier arrested in another joint operation of the SFC and the ICAC (Note 1).

In the course of a corruption investigation by the ICAC, it was revealed that a financial intermediary had allegedly conspired with two mortgage loan applicants to deceive a financial services company into granting the duo loans totalling about $5.2 million by making false representations about their monthly salaries. Following the prosecution of the two mortgage loan applicants, the financial intermediary was charged by the Commission yesterday (March 14).

A parent, charged by the ICAC, today (March 14) admitted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts that she had offered a bribe of $20,000 in cash to a headmistress of a government primary school in a bid to secure a primary one placement for her son. The incident was revealed in a corruption complaint filed by the school.

A then Police Sergeant was charged by the ICAC today (March 14) for allegedly deceiving the Hong Kong Police Credit Union (HKPCU) into granting four loans totalling over $760,000 to him by making false representations about his loans from and monthly loan repayments to banks or financial institutions. The fraud offences were revealed in the course of a corruption investigation by the ICAC.

A man was charged by the ICAC today (March 13) for allegedly bribing a nurse of a Community Vaccination Centre (CVC) with $1,000 for obtaining a vaccination record without inoculating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Four former site team leaders of a sub-contractor of the Third Runway Project of the Hong Kong International Airport (Third Runway Project) were charged by the ICAC today (March 10) with soliciting and accepting illegal rebates totalling about $430,000 from around 40 riggers, bar-benders and carpenters in relation to their employment with the sub-contractor. Arising from the relevant investigation, the ICAC has so far charged a total of 21 people.