ICAC Commissioner, Mr Simon Peh Yun-lu, has been elected President of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA) at its General Meeting on January 5, 2022.

One more then site team leader of a sub-contractor of the Third Runway Project of the Hong Kong International Airport (Third Runway Project) was today (January 4) sentenced to two months’ imprisonment at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts after admitting that he had solicited and accepted illegal rebates from two construction workers. The defendant was among six charged by the ICAC and the fourth to enter a guilty plea for bribery in assisting construction workers to secure employment with the sub-contractor.

A former head of a private residential care home for persons with disabilities (RCHD) was charged by the ICAC today (January 4) for allegedly forging his attendance records to mislead the Social Welfare Department (SWD) that the RCHD had met the statutory and contractual manpower requirements.

A director and an employee of a garment accessories trading company and an employee of a garment manufacturer were charged by the ICAC yesterday (December 30) for allegedly offering and accepting bribes totalling about $7.4 million over purchase orders worth at least over $36 million placed by two garment manufacturers for over a period of seven years.

A former guesthouse operator, charged by the ICAC, was today (December 29) convicted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts of offering bribes in cash, travel packages and reimbursements worth totalling over $30,000 to an agent of his landlord to resolve tenancy matters.

Two former managers of a restaurant were today (December 28) charged by the ICAC with conspiracy to defraud the restaurant of payments totalling over $45,000 by falsifying the attendance records of four part-time servers.

Six former insurance agents were charged by the ICAC today (December 22) with conspiracy to defraud an insurance company into paying commissions and bonuses totalling about $950,000 to four of them by making false representations about the handling agents of 10 policies.

Two then employees of a sub-contractor of the Third Runway Project of the Hong Kong International Airport (Third Runway Project) were today (December 21) sentenced to jail terms up to six months at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts for accepting illegal rebates totalling $27,000 from five construction workers. The duo were among six charged by the ICAC for bribery in assisting construction workers to secure employment with the sub-contractor.

Two then employees of a sub-contractor of the Third Runway Project of the Hong Kong International Airport (Third Runway Project) today (December 20) admitted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts their roles in accepting illegal rebates totalling $27,000 from five construction workers for securing the latter’s employment with the sub-contractor. The duo were among six charged in relation to the ICAC probe.

Nine hundred staff from various departments of the ICAC have been mobilised to carry out different duties across the territory to ensure today’s (December 19) Legislative Council General Election (LegCo Election) be conducted in a clean and fair manner, ICAC Commissioner Mr Simon Peh Yun-lu told the press after casting his vote.