A former bank employee was charged by the ICAC yesterday (November 15) with accepting a bribe of HK$115,000 from an insurance agent for referring a client, and defrauding two clients of insurance premiums totalling over HK$820,000.

A logistics subcontractor was charged by the ICAC today (November 15) for allegedly inflating delivery fees and returning the differences as “sweetener” to bribe a manager of a logistics company for maintaining a good relationship and for the latter showing favour to the subcontractor in outsourcing various delivery orders worth totalling about HK$1.7 million.

A former engineer of the Airport Authority Hong Kong (Airport Authority) was charged by the ICAC today (November 14) with using various site supervision records containing false statements to mislead the Airport Authority and its fire services facilities design consultant that he had checked soil sampling and fielding testing for the East Fire Station of the Three-runway System Project (3RS Project).

A then head chef of a Chinese restaurant was charged by ICAC today (November 11) with soliciting and accepting bribes from a subordinate for assisting the subordinate and his wife to maintain employment with the restaurant and get promoted, and perversion by inciting the subordinate to make false statements to the Commission in respect of its investigation.

A woman charged by the ICAC was today (November 11) sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, after admitting at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts that she had reposted on her social media page a post of Hui Chi-fung which incited others to cast blank votes at the 2021 Legislative Council General Election (2021 LegCo Election) during the election period.

Eight people – including a suspected ringleader of a sophisticated syndicate operating ramp-and-dump schemes through a complex cross-shareholding network of Hong Kong-listed companies involving illicit gains of $191 million – were arrested in a joint operation of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) mounted in the past two days (9 and 10 November) (Notes 1 & 2).

The ICAC today (November 9) charged four persons, aged between 29 and 58, for allegedly reposting or displaying on their respective social media pages a post of Hui Chi-fung, Yau Man-chun or Sunny Cheung Kwan-yang which incited others to cast blank votes or not to vote at the 2021 Legislative Council General Election (2021 LegCo Election) during the election period.

Four former employees of the main contractor and a sub-contractor of the Third Runway Project of the Hong Kong International Airport (Third Runway Project) were charged by the ICAC yesterday (November 3) with soliciting and accepting illegal rebates from five construction workers in relation to their employment with the sub-contractor. Arising from the relevant investigation, the Commission has so far charged a total of 17 persons.

The ICAC has kicked off an array of education and publicity initiatives to call on candidates, election helpers and electors to jointly uphold a clean and fair Rural Representative Election, which will be open for nomination tomorrow (November 4).

An Associate Consultant of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) was charged by the ICAC yesterday (November 2) with misconduct in public office (MIPO) for allegedly prescribing over 1,000 bottles of cough syrup and over 400 tablets of psychiatric medication to his family members and patients between 2015 and 2020 for his own use and retention. He also faces charges of theft for allegedly stealing those medicines from QEH. The case will be brought to the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts tomorrow (November 4) for mention.