Following the announcement by the CUHK Medical Centre (CUHKMC) this (September 23) morning and in response to media enquiries, an ICAC spokesperson confirmed that the Commission had received a corruption complaint from the CUHKMC. It was suspected that certain staff members of the CUHKMC had abused his/her authority to defraud the Centre of money by illegal means, allegedly contravening Section 9(3) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, i.e., agent using document with intent to deceive his/her principal. After collecting evidence, ICAC officers arrested two staff members of the CUHKMC and carried out searches under warrants issued by the court last Thursday (September 18). The two arrestees had been released on ICAC bail, pending further investigation.

A tenant was charged by the ICAC for allegedly offering a bribe of $1,000 to an estate agent, requesting the latter to conceal from an estate agency that he had defaulted a tenancy agreement to avoid giving up his deposit as compensation.

The “Coding4Integrity Hackathon”, co-hosted by the ICAC, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA) for the first time, concluded today (September 19) on a high note in Cyberport, Hong Kong. The five-day flagship event brought together young talents from 14 Asian countries and regions to compete in designing digital solutions to fight corruption, harnessing the combined strengths of young people, information technology and international collaboration with a view to advancing the anti-corruption cause.

A director of an interior design company was charged by the ICAC yesterday (September 15) with perversion for allegedly conspiring with another person to induce a subcontractor not to file a report with the ICAC.

The director of a former subcontractor of the Water Supplies Department (WSD) and three of his employees, charged by the ICAC, today (September 16) admitted at the District Court that they had committed conspiracy to defraud by submitting service reservoir inspection reports containing false information to induce the WSD to release service payments totalling about $4.6 million.

A foreman of a contractor of a commercial complex construction project, among eight defendants entering guilty pleas following ICAC’s prosecution, was today (September 15) sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts for falsifying the attendance records of workers by altering the facial images registered with the facial recognition system at the construction site to defraud the contractor of wage payments totalling over $250,000.

Witnessed by the Chief Executive Mr John Lee today (September 10), ICAC Commissioner, Mr Woo Ying-ming, exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the President of Integrity Authority of Hungary at the opening ceremony of the tenth Belt and Road (B&R) Summit to enhance collaboration and exchange in graft fight.

A then Police Constable, charged by the ICAC, was today (September 9) handed a 160-hour community service order at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts for deceiving the Hong Kong Police Credit Union (HKPCU) into granting him a loan of over $57,000 by concealing his other loans totalling over $500,000 obtained from six financial institutions.

A property agent, charged by the ICAC, today (September 5) admitted at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts that he had offered bribes to an up-line branch manager for conniving at his prolonged absence from duty and falsifying his attendance records to defraud a property agency of salary payments totalling over $58,000.

ICAC Commissioner Woo Ying-ming today (September 4) commenced a duty visit to Tianjin where he would call on various anti-corruption agencies to discuss graft fighting work.