Ex-managers of restaurant chain charged with bribery and fraud
2017-2-13
Two former managers of a Japanese fast food restaurant chain have been charged by the ICAC today (February 13) with offering and accepting bribes totalling $56,000 respectively, and conspiracy to defraud the restaurant chain by inputting inaccurate sales records into its cashier computer system.
Law Kim-ching, 53, former senior store manager of Yoshinoya Fast Food (Hong Kong) Limited (Yoshinoya), and Wong Nga-yan, 24, former assistant store manager of Yoshinoya, face a joint charge of conspiracy to defraud, contrary to Common Law.
Law alone faces one charge of offering advantage to an agent, contrary to Section 9(2)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (POBO), while Wong faces one charge of agent accepting an advantage, contrary to Section 9(1)(a) of the POBO.
The defendants will appear in the Tuen Mun Magistracy on Wednesday (February 15) for plea.
At the material time, Law was a senior store manager of Yoshinoya managing four branches, including Tin Shui Branch. Wong was an assistant store manager at Tin Shui Branch.
The joint charge alleges that between July 1, 2015 and March 3, 2016, Law and Wong conspired together with a supervisor at Tin Shui Branch to defraud Yoshinoya by dishonestly permitting Yoshinoya to book its sales turnover of the branch by relying on the records compiled by the cashier computer system installed in the branch, knowing that the records compiled were inaccurate.
Another charge alleges that between September 1, 2015 and March 3, 2016, Law, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, offered cash of approximately $24,000 in total to the supervisor as rewards for the latter to assist in causing inaccurate sales records to be made within the cashier computer system at Tin Shui Branch.
The remaining charge alleges that between July 1, 2015 and March 3, 2016, Wong, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, accepted cash of approximately $32,000 in total from Law as rewards for Wong to assist in causing inaccurate sales records to be made within the cashier computer system at Tin Shui Branch.
Yoshinoya has rendered full assistance to the ICAC during its investigation.
The defendants have been released on ICAC bail, pending their court appearance on Wednesday.
Law Kim-ching, 53, former senior store manager of Yoshinoya Fast Food (Hong Kong) Limited (Yoshinoya), and Wong Nga-yan, 24, former assistant store manager of Yoshinoya, face a joint charge of conspiracy to defraud, contrary to Common Law.
Law alone faces one charge of offering advantage to an agent, contrary to Section 9(2)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (POBO), while Wong faces one charge of agent accepting an advantage, contrary to Section 9(1)(a) of the POBO.
The defendants will appear in the Tuen Mun Magistracy on Wednesday (February 15) for plea.
At the material time, Law was a senior store manager of Yoshinoya managing four branches, including Tin Shui Branch. Wong was an assistant store manager at Tin Shui Branch.
The joint charge alleges that between July 1, 2015 and March 3, 2016, Law and Wong conspired together with a supervisor at Tin Shui Branch to defraud Yoshinoya by dishonestly permitting Yoshinoya to book its sales turnover of the branch by relying on the records compiled by the cashier computer system installed in the branch, knowing that the records compiled were inaccurate.
Another charge alleges that between September 1, 2015 and March 3, 2016, Law, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, offered cash of approximately $24,000 in total to the supervisor as rewards for the latter to assist in causing inaccurate sales records to be made within the cashier computer system at Tin Shui Branch.
The remaining charge alleges that between July 1, 2015 and March 3, 2016, Wong, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, accepted cash of approximately $32,000 in total from Law as rewards for Wong to assist in causing inaccurate sales records to be made within the cashier computer system at Tin Shui Branch.
Yoshinoya has rendered full assistance to the ICAC during its investigation.
The defendants have been released on ICAC bail, pending their court appearance on Wednesday.