A then substantial shareholder of a listed company and its then chairman, charged by the ICAC and convicted after trial, were today (February 3) sentenced to 34 months and 37 months in jail respectively at the District Court for conspiring with a businessman to defraud The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (SEHK), the listed company and its board of directors and shareholders by concealing a secret “backdoor listing” agreement in a capital raising exercise involving illicit payments of over $200 million. The ICAC had already filed with the court an application for confiscating the crime proceeds concerned.

The ICAC yesterday (January 23) hosted a corruption prevention seminar for the eight publicly-funded universities in Hong Kong to strengthen anti-graft awareness of managerial staff responsible for student admission and related policies, and further enhance local universities’ student admission procedures to ensure integrity and fairness.

A former employee of a bank, charged by the ICAC, today (January 23) admitted at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts that she had accepted a bribe for referring a client to the proprietor of a lending referral agency without permission and arranged clients to apply for mortgage loans with another bank to defraud the latter of referral fees.

A then Police Sergeant, charged by the ICAC, today (January 23) 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 a loan of over $60,000 by concealing his personal debts.

An intermediary, the operator and proprietor of a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) engaging in jewellery business and two others were charged by the ICAC today (January 22) with conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to launder crime proceeds, following a corruption investigation which revealed that the intermediary had allegedly advised the SME duo to submit false payroll records which induced a bank to grant two loans totalling $6 million under the Special 100% Loan Guarantee (SLG) scheme.

Five employees of a logistics company were charged by the ICAC today (January 21) for allegedly deceiving the company into paying service charges totalling over $4.5 million by concealing their interests in various light goods vehicles (LGVs) and arranging others to use those LGVs to take up delivery orders of the company.

The ICAC had earlier charged the operator of a small house developer, a village representative and small house applicants, totalling 11 people, for conspiring together to deceive the Lands Department into granting various building licences for a small house estate development project in Yuen Long by transferring “Ding Rights”. Following the guilty pleas and jailing of two of the applicants, one more applicant today (January 17) entered guilty plea at the Tuen Mun Magistrates’ Courts.

Expanding its anti-graft network to further international cooperation has always been a priority of the ICAC. Stepping into 2025, the Hong Kong International Academy Against Corruption (HKIAAC) co-hosted the first-ever capacity building programme on meaningful youth engagement in anti-corruption work with the Anti-Corruption Bureau of Brunei Darussalam (ACB) to assist the latter to engage young people in promoting integrity. The joint effort also marked the beginning of a series of initiatives to promote international co-operation for the year.

A then team leader of a subcontractor of the Three-Runway System Project (3RS Project) of the Hong Kong International Airport was charged by the ICAC today (January 15) for allegedly soliciting a bribe of $100 to $200 per day from a crane operator for continuing his employment. The worker did not resort to bribery.

The ICAC yesterday (January 13) charged four members of the same family for alleged vote-rigging at the 2023 Rural Ordinary Election – Resident Representative Election for Ha Pak Nai Tsuen in Yuen Long. The four defendants allegedly voted at the election, although they knew they were not entitled to do so, while two of them made false representation about living in the village to an electoral registration officer.