The ICAC charged two defeated candidates of the 2019 District Council Ordinary Election (2019 DC Election) in separate cases for allegedly failing to lodge an election return as required by the Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Conduct) Ordinance (ECICO).

Two of the three former employees of a telecommunications company charged by the ICAC were respectively sentenced to six months’ and six weeks’ imprisonment at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts today (January 19) for soliciting and accepting bribes to disclose personal information and data of about 4,700 customers illegally obtained from the company’s computer systems.

The proprietor of a window maintenance contractor, charged by the ICAC, admitted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts today (January 19) that he had forged two quotation documents of another contractor for a window inspection and maintenance project of a government-aided primary school. The offences were revealed in the course of a corruption investigation by the ICAC.

A parent was charged by the ICAC today (January 18) with offering 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.

One of the two third-tier subcontractors of the construction projects of the Hong Kong Children’s Hospital and a private residential estate in Ma On Shan, charged by the ICAC, was today (January 18) sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment at the District Court after being convicted of defrauding second-tier subcontractors of wage payments by overstating daily wages of plumbers.

The ICAC today (January 17) charged a clerk of a handbag manufacturer with accepting bribes totalling over $400,000 from two staff members of a currency exchange company for causing the manufacturer to remit $120 million via the currency exchange company.

A man charged by the ICAC was today (January 17) sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, after admitting at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts that he had displayed on his social media page a post of Yau Man-chun which incited others not to vote at the 2021 Legislative Council General Election (2021 LegCo Election) during the election period.

In the course of a corruption investigation, the ICAC had earlier revealed that a Chief Customs Officer of the Customs and Excise Department (C&E) had defrauded the Government of housing allowance totalling over $160,000 by making false representations about his compliance of the relevant live-in requirement. The defendant admitted his fraudulent acts at the Tuen Mun Magistrates’ Courts today (January 17).

The ICAC today (January 16) charged a former cleaning supervisor of a contractor of a private residential estate after it was revealed in the course of a corruption investigation by the Commission that the supervisor had allegedly deceived the contractor into paying wages totalling over $860,000 by falsifying the attendance records of three cleaning workers.

The ICAC today (January 16) charged a former chairman of the incorporated owners (IO) of a private residential building and an employee of his company after it was revealed in the course of a corruption investigation by the Commission that the duo had allegedly conspired together to use false receipts to claim for reimbursement of expenses with the IO.