A woman, her husband and a relative of them were earlier charged by the ICAC for defrauding the Social Welfare Department (SWD) of Traffic Accident Victim Assistance (TAVA) payments and insurance companies of related compensation by allegedly making false representations about their injuries in traffic accidents. The wife, who earlier admitted that she had defrauded the SWD and three insurers out of a total of about $530,000, was today (August 26) sentenced at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts to 24 months’ imprisonment.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the Macao Judiciary Police jointly mounted an operation codenamed “Demarcation” on August 19 and 20 in relation to suspected cross-boundary fraud and misconduct. Senior executives of a listed company in Hong Kong were allegedly involved in fictitious transactions and false accounting totalling around HK$120 million.

A director of a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), charged by the ICAC, was today (August 20) sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment at the District Court for his role in defrauding seven banks of 63 loans totalling over $82 million and banking facilities totalling $20.5 million, as well as deceiving the Trade and Industry Department (TID) and the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited (HKMC) into acting as guarantors for loans and facilities totalling $6.9 million granted by the banks.

A casual worker of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) shuttle bus, charged by the ICAC, today (August 19) admitted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts that he had solicited a bribe for assisting two tourists who failed to provide valid tickets to board a shuttle bus departing from Hong Kong for Zhuhai during the pandemic last year. The defendant was sentenced to 10 weeks’ imprisonment.

To mark its 50th anniversary, starting from today (August 17) and for two consecutive weekends, the ICAC will open up the ICAC Building in North Point for members of the public to learn first-hand Hong Kong’s anti-corruption journey over the past five decades and the Commission’s latest initiatives.

A former personal assistant of a businessman, charged by the ICAC, was today (August 16) sentenced to five years’ imprisonment at the District Court for conspiring with the businessman to deal with crime proceeds totalling $125 million, being loans unlawfully obtained by the businessman from a listed company.

A Foreman of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD), charged by the ICAC, was today (August 15) sentenced at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts to four months’ imprisonment, suspended for three years, for accepting an unauthorised loan of $60,000 from a subordinate in breach of the anti-bribery law.

The ICAC today (August 14) charged a then manager of a printing company and his mother, for arranging for his mother to be the company’s temporary staff and falsely representing her working hours to deceive wages totalling over $400,000 in 18 consecutive months.

The ICAC today (Aug 13) charged a then senior sales executive of a frozen meat supplier, for allegedly concealing the conflict of interest during his employment and inducing the employer to sell goods to a company operated by him with the same business, deceiving goods supply valued over $5 million.

A senior manager of a main contractor, charged by the ICAC, accepted a bribe of $1 million from a subcontractor for favouring the latter over the Kai Tak Sports Park project and a private construction project. The defendant today (August 12) pleaded guilty at the District Court.