A man was brought to the Eastern Magistracy today (March 6) after being charged by the ICAC for allegedly breaching the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (POBO) by disclosing the identity of a person under investigation.

A licensed plumber appeared in the Eastern Magistracy today (March 2) after being charged by the ICAC with bribing an inspector of the Water Supplies Department (WSD) for approval of the plumbing work conducted by him.

A job seeker appeared in the Eastern Magistracy today (March 2) after being charged by the ICAC with using false academic proofs in seeking employments from three government departments and the anti-corruption agency in a period of nine years, thereby inducing those government departments to pay him remunerations of over $1.1 million.

A former bar bender of a construction company, charged by the ICAC, admitted at the Shatin Magistracy today (February 28) that he had defrauded the construction company and three then bar benders of wages totalling over $360,000 and perverting public justice by requesting two of them to make false statements to the anti-corruption agency.

Three chefs of three Chinese restaurants and two food suppliers have been charged by the ICAC today (February 26) with respectively conspiracy to accept and offering illegal rebates totalling over $120,000 in relation to placing orders of food items.

A former senior executive of a bank and an investor, charged by the ICAC, were today (February 26) each sentenced to 45 months’ imprisonment at a re-trial in the Court of First Instance (CFI) for accepting and offering about $6.4 million in bribes respectively in relation to the trading of derivative warrants issued by the bank.

A former chauffeur of an interior design company, charged by the ICAC, was today (February 26) convicted at the Shatin Magistracy of soliciting and accepting bribes of $10,000 in relation to the sale of a sports car at an asking price of $1.3 million.

Two former agents of a property agency appeared at the West Kowloon Magistracy today (February 23) after being charged by the ICAC in two cases for their roles in defrauding commissions amounting to around $170,000 in property transactions.

Hong Kong was ranked the 13th least corrupt place among 180 countries/territories in the latest survey by international anti-graft watchdog Transparency International (TI), two places up from previous year’s ranking, and which coincided with the ICAC’s latest opinion survey in which a vast majority of citizens polled said they had not personally encountered corruption in the past 12 months.

Two police officers and a businessman, charged by the ICAC, were today (February 14) sentenced to jail terms up to three years at the District Court for conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office (MIPO) in relation to a murder case under investigation by the Police.