Job seeker admits fraud over employment with six companies
2018-1-31
A job seeker, charged by the ICAC, admitted at the Eastern Magistracy today (January 31) that she had defrauded her six previous employers of employment as insurance agent or membership consultant by using false academic proofs.
Yeung Chung-ting, 40, pleaded guilty to six charges of fraud, contrary to Section 16A of the Theft Ordinance.
Principal Magistrate Ms Bina Chainrai adjourned the case until February 14 for sentence, pending probation and community service order reports. The defendant was remanded in the custody of the Correctional Services Department.
The case arose from a corruption complaint. Subsequent ICAC enquiries revealed the above offences.
The court heard that according to the regulations of the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers, all insurance agents employed after January 1, 2000 had to attain at least Form 5 level of education or equivalent.
Between August 12, 2002 and April 11, 2013, the defendant submitted her job applications to five insurance companies, claimed in those applications that she had studied at a secondary school from 1989 to 1994 and attained Form 5 level of education, and submitted a graduation certificate to each of those companies.
As a result, the five insurance companies offered employment to her as insurance agent.
The court heard that in October 2012, the defendant applied for a job with a bank. An employment agency was engaged to conduct the employment procedures.
On November 2, 2012, the defendant submitted to the employment agency a resume, in which she claimed that she had been educated at the secondary school from 1989 to 1993, and completed a five-year course.
The defendant also submitted a copy of the graduation certificate to the employment agency as supporting document. Subsequently, the defendant was hired by the employment agency and seconded to work at the bank as membership consultant.
ICAC enquiries revealed that the secondary school ceased operation on December 19, 1988, and its registration with the then Education Department was cancelled two months later.
Had the five insurance companies and the employment agency been aware that the graduation certificate and/or any information submitted by the defendant were false, they would not have processed her applications or employed her, the court was told.
The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Eastman Tang.
Yeung Chung-ting, 40, pleaded guilty to six charges of fraud, contrary to Section 16A of the Theft Ordinance.
Principal Magistrate Ms Bina Chainrai adjourned the case until February 14 for sentence, pending probation and community service order reports. The defendant was remanded in the custody of the Correctional Services Department.
The case arose from a corruption complaint. Subsequent ICAC enquiries revealed the above offences.
The court heard that according to the regulations of the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers, all insurance agents employed after January 1, 2000 had to attain at least Form 5 level of education or equivalent.
Between August 12, 2002 and April 11, 2013, the defendant submitted her job applications to five insurance companies, claimed in those applications that she had studied at a secondary school from 1989 to 1994 and attained Form 5 level of education, and submitted a graduation certificate to each of those companies.
As a result, the five insurance companies offered employment to her as insurance agent.
The court heard that in October 2012, the defendant applied for a job with a bank. An employment agency was engaged to conduct the employment procedures.
On November 2, 2012, the defendant submitted to the employment agency a resume, in which she claimed that she had been educated at the secondary school from 1989 to 1993, and completed a five-year course.
The defendant also submitted a copy of the graduation certificate to the employment agency as supporting document. Subsequently, the defendant was hired by the employment agency and seconded to work at the bank as membership consultant.
ICAC enquiries revealed that the secondary school ceased operation on December 19, 1988, and its registration with the then Education Department was cancelled two months later.
Had the five insurance companies and the employment agency been aware that the graduation certificate and/or any information submitted by the defendant were false, they would not have processed her applications or employed her, the court was told.
The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Eastman Tang.