A former employee of an insurance company, charged by the ICAC, was today (July 8) convicted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts of soliciting a bribe from a director of a broker firm for assisting a client to take out motor insurance policies for 600 new taxis, involving premiums totalling over $24 million.

Two foremen and three workers of a contractor of a commercial complex construction project, charged by the ICAC, today (July 8) admitted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts that they had falsified attendance records of workers by altering facial images registered with the facial recognition system at the construction site to defraud the contractor of wage payments totalling over $250,000.

An employee of a design consultancy, charged by the ICAC, today (July 7) admitted at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts that she had accepted bribes of over $230,000 for assisting two works contractors to secure two renovation projects of two Japanese chain stores involving project fees totalling over $25 million.

A couple from a subcontractor of a construction project in Mid-Levels, charged by the ICAC, were today (July 4) convicted at the District Court of fraud for swindling the project contractor out of almost $9.6 million by falsifying and overstating the wages of workers.

A former director of operations of the advertising department of a newspaper company, charged by the ICAC, was today (July 3) sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment at the District Court for soliciting bribes from four subordinates and accepting about $88,000 in total from two of them after their receipt of commissions from the company, while the two subordinates were handed suspended sentences.

A team leader and two workers of an air-conditioning subcontractor of a government community health centre development project were charged by the ICAC today (July 3) for allegedly accepting bribes totalling over $300,000 from workers referred by them.

A former senior sales executive of a frozen meat supplier, charged by the ICAC, was today (July 2) sentenced to three years’ imprisonment at the District Court after admitting that he had deceived his then employer into supplying over $5.2 million worth of goods to a food supplier operated by him by deliberately concealing his conflicting interest, but he had only settled payment of about $100,000.

Two then bank employees and two intermediaries were charged by the ICAC yesterday (June 25) for allegedly conspiring together to accept bribes totalling over HK$180,000 for assisting clients of the intermediaries to open bank accounts. An intermediary concerned also allegedly offered a bribe to another bank employee by similar corrupt means, but his offer was rejected.

A former director of operations of the advertising department of a newspaper company, charged by the ICAC, was today (June 26) convicted at the District Court of eight counts of bribery for soliciting bribes from four subordinates and accepting about $88,000 in total from two of them after their receipt of commissions from the company. The two subordinates earlier pleaded guilty to having offered bribes.

A then Police Sergeant, charged by the ICAC, today (June 24) admitted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts that he had applied for continued service beyond retirement age and deceived the Hong Kong Police Credit Union (HKPCU) into granting him three loans totalling over $300,000 by concealing his personal debts.