A Housing Officer of the Housing Department (HD), charged by the ICAC, today (December 19) admitted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts that he had handled two public housing unit transfer applications by using a document containing a false approval in breach of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (POBO), and forging a memo issued by the Social Welfare Department (SWD) to cover up his delays in handling the applications. The offences were revealed in the course of a corruption investigation by the ICAC.

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 (December 19) convicted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts of soliciting and accepting illegal rebates totalling about $6,300 from two plumbers for securing their employment with the sub-contractor. The defendant was among 17 people charged by the Commission with bribery over workers’ employment arising from the relevant investigation.

A man who made a mistake at a road driving test of the Transport Department (TD) was charged by the ICAC today (December 16) with bribing a driving examiner with $2,000 to get a pass.

A couple, charged by the ICAC, today (December 16) admitted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts that they had respectively violated the anti-bribery law by using documents containing false information to conceal the husband’s conflicts of interest, causing Hong Kong St. John Ambulance (St. John) to approve him to teach first aid courses for an association of which he was the vice-chairperson; and attempted fraud over honorariums for trainers of the courses.

A then Assistant Officer I of the Correctional Services Department (CSD), charged by the ICAC, was today (December 15) sentenced at the Tuen Mun Magistrates’ Courts after admitting that he had supplied snacks to eight prisoners without authorisation. The offences were revealed in the course of a corruption investigation by the Commission.

Two intermediaries, charged by the ICAC, were today (December 14) respectively sentenced to 12 and four months’ imprisonment after admitting at the District Court that they had offered bribes to a bank manager for assisting non-domestic clients to open personal and corporate accounts with three local banks, and used copies of false instruments to falsely represent that the clients were in Hong Kong when they made account opening applications.

In the course of a corruption investigation by the ICAC, it was revealed that a former operational director of a private healthcare centre had allegedly falsified sales records and receipts to deceive the centre of commissions. The defendant was charged by the Commission with false accounting offences yesterday (December 13).

Thirty representatives from local and overseas law enforcement organisations today (December 13) completed a nine-day specialist training course focusing on financial investigation hosted by the ICAC, the Commission’s first face-to-face training programme engaging participants from local and overseas counterparts since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ICAC today (December 9) charged a senior executive of an insurer with bribery for allegedly accepting luxury handbags and jewellery worth totalling over HK$360,000 from five down-line insurance agents to assist them in securing customers to take out insurance policies with the insurer.

A former site team leader of a sub-contractor of the Third Runway Project of the Hong Kong International Airport (Third Runway Project) today (December 9) admitted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts that he had accepted illegal rebates totalling over $66,000 from two carpenters and perverted the course of public justice by instructing the duo to make false statements to the ICAC that they had not paid any rebate. The defendant was among 17 people charged by the Commission with bribery for assisting construction workers to secure employment with the sub-contractor.