A businessman appeared at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts for mention this afternoon (November 18) after being charged by the ICAC in the morning for allegedly offering a bribe of $50,000 to a senior lecturer of the School of Professional Education and Executive Development (SPEED) of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in a bid to secure his admission to a top-up degree programme.

A then general manager of a pharmaceutical wholesaler and his subordinate were charged by the ICAC yesterday (November 12) for making false representation about consultancy and other services provided by a secretarial services company operated by the subordinate to defraud the pharmaceutical wholesaler of service fees totalling over $1.1 million. Meanwhile, a business partner of the subordinate was charged with money laundering.

The ICAC today (November 13) charged a works subcontractor and a worker for allegedly conspiring together to defraud a glass facade contractor of overpaid wages totalling over $330,000 by making false representations about workers’ attendance records. The subcontractor was also charged with perversion for allegedly instructing workers to falsely claim the latter’s attendance.

The ICAC had earlier charged 11 people, including the operator of a small house developer, a village representative and small house applicants, for allegedly conspiring to deceive the Lands Department into granting various building licenses for a small house estate development project in Yuen Long by transferring the “Ding Rights” concerned. Two of the small house applicants today (November 8) admitted their roles in the scam at the Tuen Mun Magistrates’ Courts.

The ICAC is committed to assisting the construction industry to enhance integrity management and corruption prevention capabilities. In order to encourage the sector to implement integrity management continually and uphold a probity culture, the ICAC has joined hands with the Construction Industry Council (CIC) to launch the “Integrity Management Award” in the Outstanding Contractor Award 2024 and took part in its assessment.

The ICAC and the Civil Service Bureau (CSB) today (November 6) co-organised a thematic workshop on supervisory accountability for about 150 Ethics Officers and staff responsible for integrity management of around 70 bureaux / departments (B/Ds) under the Ethical Leadership Programme (ELP), with a view to entrenching the integrity culture in government departments.

A then deputy general manager of a listed company and his mother were charged by the ICAC yesterday (November 4) for allegedly conspiring with an Australian businessman to accept an investment opportunity from the latter for the then deputy general manager to show favour to the businessman in relation to the listed company’s investments in overseas property development projects.

A private cello tutor, charged by the ICAC, today (November 4) admitted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts that he had concealed from a parent the actual discount he obtained when assisting the latter in purchasing a cello, and pocketed the price difference totalling over $6,000.

A then manager of a printing company, charged by the ICAC, today (November 4) admitted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts that he had arranged his mother to serve as a temporary staff member and made false representations about her working hours to swindle wages totalling over $420,000 in 18 months.

An insurance intermediary, charged by the ICAC, was today (October 31) convicted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts of conspiring with two policyholders to deceive an insurer into paying accident insurance compensation to them by making false representations about their injuries. The offence was revealed in the course of an ICAC corruption investigation.