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.

A former salesperson of a finance company, charged by the ICAC, was today (November 3) sentenced to 25_months’ imprisonment after admitting conspiracy to defraud the company of referral fees totalling about $600,000 by making false representations that various loan applications were referred by a referral agent. The scam was revealed in a corruption investigation.

The ICAC today (November 1) charged a subcontractor of a residential project for allegedly using a false worker salary record to claim contract fee from a contractor revealed in the course of a corruption investigation.

A mortgage loan applicant, charged by the ICAC, today (November 1) admitted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts that she had deceived a financial services company into granting her a mortgage loan of about $3.5 million by making false representations about her occupation and salary, which was revealed in the course of a corruption investigation.

The ICAC today (October 31) charged a former bank manager with bribing a colleague for referring residential mortgage loan clients of the bank to a financial intermediary for arranging mortgage refinancing from other banks or financial institutions.

A former insurance agent, charged by the ICAC, today (October 31) admitted at Eastern Magistrates’ Courts that he had defrauded an insurer of commissions of about $160,000 by making false representations that two clients had taken out insurance policies from the insurer. The offences were revealed in the course of a corruption investigation.

Over the past 25 years, members of the ICAC Club committed to promoting integrity messages in the community by spending more than 70,000 hours in total as voluntary helpers in various anti-corruption programmes to safeguard the integrity culture in Hong Kong.

The ICAC has rolled out a series of education and publicity initiatives in a bid to uphold a clean and fair Legislative Council (LegCo) By-election, and help candidates, election helpers and electors better understand the Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Conduct) Ordinance (ECICO) to avoid breaching it inadvertently.

A couple were charged by the ICAC yesterday (October 26) respectively with offences under the anti-bribery law for allegedly 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 in which he was the vice-chairperson; and attempted fraud over honorariums for trainers of the courses.