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.

Two air-conditioning subcontractor workers, charged by the ICAC, today (September 4) respectively received a jail sentence and a suspended sentence after admitting at the Fanling Magistrates’ Courts that they had conspired with a team leader to accept bribes totalling over $300,000 from workers of a government development project for the North District Community Health Centre.

Following the guilty pleas of five co-defendants, three of the eight employees of a contractor of a commercial complex construction project, charged by the ICAC, today (September 1) admitted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts that they had falsified 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.

The ICAC, the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), the Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China (SF&OC), and The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute (HKCGI) today (August 28) jointly launched the

A high-level delegation of anti-corruption officials from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) of Kenya concluded a three-day study visit (August 12 to 14) at the ICAC, during which the two parties exchanged graft-fighting strategies, expounded on training experience of the Hong Kong International Academy Against Corruption (HKIAAC), and explored cooperation in organising a regional training course in Africa to foster international anti-graft collaboration.

In a recent law enforcement operation, the ICAC arrested five individuals, including the operators of two private care agencies, for their alleged roles in a subsidy scam in relation to the “Community Care Service Voucher Scheme for the Elderly” (CCSV Scheme) under the Social Welfare Department (SWD).

An ICAC corruption investigation revealed that an illegal syndicate, with the assistance of bank officers in signing and issuing false bank documents, had deceived Japanese investors into making investments of over JPY400 million (about HK$28.4 million) in various companies which claimed to take part in investment projects in Africa by falsely representing that their bank accounts held asset totalling over HK$37 billion. While three out of five defendants had earlier entered guilty pleas, one more former bank manager today (August 11) pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud at the District Court.

A then chairlady of a non-governmental organisation (NGO), charged by the ICAC, was today (August 7) sentenced to four months’ imprisonment at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts for using a false receipt and quotations to reimburse the expenses for government-funded projects and defrauding three schools of activity payments while working part-time for a drama troupe. The total sum involved was over $40,000.

The ICAC had earlier charged a former district manager of an insurer and her three downline agents of different tiers for conspiring together to defraud the insurer of commissions, overriding commissions and bonuses totalling over $1.4 million by making false representations that the lowest tier agent had handled various insurance policy applications fabricated by them. The former district manager and two of the downline agents were today (August 1) sentenced at the District Court to jail terms ranging from 20 to 41 months.