A former Senior Building Services Engineer of the Architectural Services Department (ArchSD) was charged by the ICAC today (October 19) with offences under the anti-bribery law for allegedly using application documents containing false statements that he did not have a financial interest in a leased property to deceitfully obtain Government housing allowance totalling over $940,000.

A then Assistant Officer I of the Correctional Services Department (CSD) was charged by the ICAC today (October 18) for allegedly supplying snacks to eight prisoners without authorisation revealed in the course of a corruption investigation.

Seventeen persons were charged by the ICAC in the past two days (October 11 and 12) with conspiracy to defraud, revealed in the course of a corruption investigation. They allegedly took part in a dummy insurance agents scam to defraud two insurers of commission totalling over $43 million by making false representations that they had handled about 480 insurance policies. Some of them were also charged with money laundering for allegedly dealing with the commissions.

Two former senior staff members of Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education (LiPACE) of The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK), charged by the ICAC, were respectively sentenced to 15 and 10 months’ imprisonment at the District Court today (October 13) for conspiracy to solicit an employment from a beauty industry organisation in their official capacities.

The ICAC today (October 12) charged a former head of the human resources department of an information technology company for soliciting bribes from three job applicants for assisting them to obtain a higher monthly salary.

A Housing Officer of the Housing Department (HD) was charged by the ICAC today (October 12) for allegedly handling 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.

A former insurance agent was charged by the ICAC, today (October 11) with defrauding an insurer of commissions totalling about $750,000 by making false representations in five insurance policy applications about the occupation and monthly income of the applicants or the relevant handling agent.

More than 20 members of the Legislative Council (LegCo) today (October 10) visited the ICAC Headquarters to learn first-hand the Commission’s latest initiatives and exchange views on Hong Kong’s anti-corruption work.

A Magistrate issued a warrant for the arrest of a former Adjunct Associate Professor of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), who is wanted by the ICAC for allegedly conspiring with two others, charged earlier, to conceal his interest in two suppliers in relation to various procurements that involved payments totalling about $4 million.

A former insurance agent, charged by the ICAC, today (October 10) admitted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts he had conspired with another person to deceive a button manufacturer into renewing its products liability insurance policy on several occasions at inflated annual premiums involving a total of about $240,000.